I wanted to document this here. The permanently delete functionality for various user groups: | User Group | Has Permanently Delete | | ----------- | ---------------------- | | Admin | Y | | Moderator | Y | | TL4 | N | …

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 extr…

[image] 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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