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

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**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:** ![Drew\_Warwick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drew_warwick/32/80591_2.png) [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-persistence-of-posts-hidden-by-flags-are-a-bane-to-our-community/109969/3 "2019-02-24T22:14:39Z")

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We do have it enabled, but a full month is so long that we thought they were never deleted. Can this be changed so that site admins can configure the amount of days? We would want to set this to 1-2 days.

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