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Shinobi-san said:

Ryuu96 said:

Everything which has an edit version stored will still exist in the edit table but the issue is linking it to a user, if we have no Post ID and knowledge of the user who posted it then it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. Wayback Machine stores a lot of URLs but again, you'd need to remember the URL.

I mean does a user or any users/admins have the ability to completely delete a thread? To the point where we can no longer find it?

That depends on what you mean by "completely delete". A thread can be locked/hidden from the average user yes.  But if you bookmark it or have the URL you can typically go to it.

Ryuu96 said:

Shinobi-san said:

I mean does a user or any users/admins have the ability to completely delete a thread? To the point where we can no longer find it?

I'm sure Bandorr/Trucks/Talon could if they wanted to since they have access to the backend.

As for the rest of us, nope.

And then there is the "completely delete" aspect of it. If you mean actually remove it from the site. So even if you have the URL it doesn't exist - then that is possible. Someone with database access would have to actually go into the database and remove the data from the tables themself.

That is limited to a very few amount of people, and requires actual effort of tracking down the info in all the tables and removing them while also hoping it doesn't break the website because of things relate to other things.

So if you have a specific thing in mind I can take a look for it because I can of no reason to actually ever do that.  Why remove something when you can just edit it?