Deleting forum content

[Shawn Gossman]

When it comes to deleting forum content, do you soft delete posts?

Or hard delete posts?

I don't like the way soft deleting leaves posts for me to see. I usually hard delete them. If I need to keep them, I move them to a staff board made just for those types of posts.

How about you all?

 

[Heatman]

As long as there's a need for me to delete a content, it's hard deleted without any traces left. Soft deleting leaves an ugly mess behind which is why I don't like using it.

 

[Cedric]

I'm probably a bit old fashioned, but I tend to move posts to a trash bin.

 

[Heatman]

I'm probably a bit old fashioned, but I tend to move posts to a trash bin.

This works for me very well too. Although, it's basically too much work moving them to trash bin but if you have the time to do it, it's very good.

 

[Cpvr]

I'm probably a bit old fashioned, but I tend to move posts to a trash bin.

I do the same thing lol

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I do the same thing lol

So do I.

I have called mine "Post Storage" since the days I used phpBB

However, for junk posts that don't need to be kept for a record, I usually permanently delete them nowadays.

 

[Heatman]

How do you handle junk posts that came into show from probably moving or merging two forums where the OP title went missing but the comments of others and title still exists?