Is IPB planing on adding the feature that moderators can only softdelete topics and Administrators harddelete topics?
This is very important to us since we have had Moderators before who went insane by deleting topics they weren't supposed to delete.

Thanks for answering.

IPB already has that feature, but it's called something else (invisible/approve).

which version of IPB? I know of the trash can?

That would be the trashcan.

 

That would be the trashcan.

Yep, this is what the trashcan is for.

 

IPB already has that feature, but it's called something else (invisible/approve).

No, this is different. vbulletin uses this feature also. It would allow moderators to delete a thread, and enter a reason, and the post/thread author will be able to see the reason why the thread was deleted. It is different from moderated/invisable.

 

No, this is different. vbulletin uses this feature also. It would allow moderators to delete a thread, and enter a reason, and the post/thread author will be able to see the reason why the thread was deleted. It is different from moderated/invisable.

The post/thread author generally can't see it, just groups that are set to see it, that's usually just mods and admins, but I've seen forums that let everyone see the notices from soft deleted posts.

 

The post/thread author generally can't see it, just groups that are set to see it, that's usually just mods and admins, but I've seen forums that let everyone see the notices from soft deleted posts.

In my opinion it would be good if we could make it so that the author of the post can see the deletion reason for his thread/post.

 

In my opinion it would be good if we could make it so that the author of the post can see the deletion reason for his thread/post.

In that case, allow everybody to see topics THEY started in the trash-can forum. Then, when moderators "delete" a topic, they can post a reply to it with the reason for delete.

I cam up with an idea..

Softdelete = Move's to TrashCan
Harddelete = Delete pernamently

Like if you get bot spammed, like pornography for instance.

-Blake Reynolds.

Personally I'm a big fan of making soft delete show a public note like "this post has been deleted" possibly along with a reason.

I also started a topic about this a while back...

 

No, this is different. vbulletin uses this feature also. It would allow moderators to delete a thread, and enter a reason, and the post/thread author will be able to see the reason why the thread was deleted. It is different from moderated/invisable.

I always found this rather frustrating with regards to vBulletin. As a global-mod, it bugged me that I could not perma-delete posts from the threads, since the admin had installed vBRecycle, I just started moving posts to the trash can instead, other times I did find the SoftDelete rather useful.

Softdelete -> Moves the topic to the trash-can, and places deletion notice in the thread view allowing mods/admins to see why a post was deleted, with the reason also showing in the moderation log in the ACP. Optionally topic permission to see the deletion notice could be granted to topic owners or all members of a group.
An optional link to the topic in the TrashCan could be provided for admins/mods who have permission to access the trashcan, and when a thread is later hard-deleted (deleted from the TrashCan), that link could throw an error "The thread has been deleted permenently"

Harddelete -> Delete the topic permanently as normal, leaving no deletion notice.

Just my 2cents