# The persistence of posts hidden by flags are a bane to our community

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969>\
**Category:** UX\
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**Created:** [February 24, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969 "2019-02-24T22:05:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969/2 "2019-02-24T22:07:46Z")

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> [@Drew\_Warwick](#):
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> Posts that remain hidden for long enough without action (24 hours?) should be automatically deleted so that users can’t go prowling through another’s posts and find all the bad stuff they posted in the past

There is aready a site setting for this

> #### delete old hidden posts
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> Auto-delete any hidden posts that stay hidden for more than 30 days.

Make sure that’s checked.

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