# Who can Permanently Delete?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-can-permanently-delete/271403
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** permanently-delete
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-can-permanently-delete/271403 "2022-03-25T19:21:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sarahann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sarahann)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-can-permanently-delete/271403/1 "2022-03-25T19:21:44Z")
I wanted to document this here. The permanently delete functionality for various user groups:
```plaintext
| User Group | Has Permanently Delete |
| ----------- | ---------------------- |
| Admin | Y |
| Moderator | Y |
| TL4 | N |
| TL3 | N |
| TL2 | N |
| TL1 | N |
| TL0 | N |
```
Feel free to correct me if this isn’t right, but I was able to do a quick test on my Forums.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-can-permanently-delete/271403/2 "2022-03-25T22:26:11Z")
I wasn’t sure a moderator could permanently delete, but I’ve had a test run to check and the option does appear in their post wrench. Though when I attempted it with a test moderator it gave me a ‘Sorry, an error has occurred’ message, but worked fine using an admin account.
Is there something extra I need to do to allow a moderator to do it?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-can-permanently-delete/271403/3 "2022-03-28T22:45:19Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
>
> ‘Sorry, an error has occurred’ message, but worked fine using an admin account.
Be sure to open a bug on this (either here or on dev) sounds like something we want to fix. I think this feature is an admin only feature.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-can-permanently-delete/271403/4 "2023-07-12T12:45:10Z")
Continued in - [Error when attempting to permanently delete as moderator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-attempting-to-permanently-delete-as-moderator/222284)