Illusionus
Belongs in that dumpster
I made a topic in a hosted project I made, but I don't really have need for that anymore. Is there any way to delete that topic?
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Topic Deleting
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Chordling
Bardbarian, the Divine Chordia of Concordia
You may hide the topic, but there is no way for you to permanently delete the topic.
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Xenomorphic
One Thousand Club
Chordling
Bardbarian, the Divine Chordia of Concordia
I believe it is just the nature of a forum. Users were never able to permanently delete content from the site even before Wizard owned the site. You can't even delete your own account. If you ask, the staff may be able to delete some of the older threads, but it's a lot easier to edit new content into them.
Xenomorphic
One Thousand Club
Well, at least I finally know now.
Wolf Rawrrr
Wolf-Knight
@Xenomorphic - I've made a tutorial on nearly-deleting threads some time ago. You might want to check it out: https://www.rpnation.com/tutorials/other/how-to-delete-threads-r17/
*woof*
*woof*
Illusionus
Belongs in that dumpster
Ah I see. Thanks everyone.
Dragon Slayer Arcos
End All Life; Embrace Silence
Deleting is not possible because it creates a lot of different problems. While staff could still see and even restore deleted posts, it was not an efficient process. Now when you hide things, you are literally just removing them from public view, but it is simply still sitting there and thus easy to view and access if there were need to. No more "I deleted that crap, so now I am no longer at fault for what I said before." That was a false and flimsy excuse anyways.
Kaerri
Dannigan's Lady
Under the old software, "delete" was just what this new software calls hide anyway - staff could still see it. 
Now the creator can see it as well, as can the GM if it's in a hosted project (unless one accidentally hides the whole hosted project, in which case it's staff-only again!).
Now the creator can see it as well, as can the GM if it's in a hosted project (unless one accidentally hides the whole hosted project, in which case it's staff-only again!).
