# Split “delete all posts and topics allowed groups” into own-content and global-content permissions **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-delete-all-posts-and-topics-allowed-groups-into-own-content-and-global-content-permissions/403671 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** moderation, groups, trust-levels, category-moderators, revisions **Created:** [May 22, 2026, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-delete-all-posts-and-topics-allowed-groups-into-own-content-and-global-content-permissions/403671 "2026-05-22T21:31:18Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Ethsim2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ethsim2/32/522255_2.png) [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2) #### Post date: [May 23, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-delete-all-posts-and-topics-allowed-groups-into-own-content-and-global-content-permissions/403671/4 "2026-05-23T08:43:01Z")
One extra nuance is revision history. From looking at `PostRevisor`, edit history is stored separately through `PostRevision`, so I am not suggesting that an own-content deletion permission should necessarily hard-delete revision records or remove auditability. The permission I am imagining is more about ordinary user-facing visibility: whether the author can withdraw their own post/topic, whether the deleted-post placeholder remains, whether ordinary users can view previous edit content, and whether staff/moderators retain whatever audit/moderation access is appropriate (e.g via the “VIEW N HIDDEN REPLY”) So the split I am asking for is not: - “let users erase all traces from the database” but rather: - “let users have more control over their own visible content/footprint” - without also granting them global powers to delete other users’ content or see deleted content generally. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-delete-all-posts-and-topics-allowed-groups-into-own-content-and-global-content-permissions/403671)._