In cases like this, shouldn’t the topic go away completely??
Currently, the heading remains, even though the topic itself seems to have been deleted.
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Thank you @Kirk_Masden.
I have a feeling that it gets totally deleted after 24 hours of deletion by the community member, even though I am not sure.
I created a sample template app and elaborate post about creating large enumlists using iterative actions.
However as soon as I posted, the AI suggested similar posts feature of the community suggested some similar posts. One those posts had a tip by @Koichi_Tsuji posted a few years ago on similar lines.
Ironically, I did not find that post in my earlier search before I posted. I believe the community over last 9 + years has now lots of posts, solutions, tips accumulated. So it becomes important to search a previous similar one, even though one may not always find that earlier post in search.
Anyway, long story short, I deleted the post because of similarity in earlier one.
Edit: As expected the post seems to have been totally deleted after approximately 24 hours.
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Yeah, I have noticed that too. When a user deletes their own post, the topic heading usually stays behind. From what I understand, it’s part of how the forum software works
Correct, the deleted topic is “soft deleted” and stays in the topic list with the notice “(topic deleted by author)” until it’s permanently deleted after 24 hours.
Based on how we moderate this forum, I don’t really see the value of this feature, and it is clearly a bit confusing to users. I’ll turn it off for now, so that deleted posts disappear immediately. Keep me posted if you think we should turn it back on.
Thanks for flagging this @Kirk_Masden!
FYI @Michelle
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