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Originally Posted by Maru

I think this is good for mass deletions that have massively altered the discourse in the thread. Do it after every deletion and the mod team and forum will be a basket cases in a matter of weeks.

Edit: I think sleeping on it is sometimes too if it looks like a questionable endeavor... come back and delete delete delete... sometimes everyone has had their mea culpa... or a chronically insomniac 3am mod will clean it up when it gets particularly nasty. Leaving those threads around can cause issues if there are a lot of thin skins on the board. I'm OK with locked threads in most cases... personally speaking.

Edit2: We actually used to move deleted/edited posts to a hidden forum just in case we needed to bring back a post (with edits) to make clear it was moderated and re-cleared. Something to consider.

we used to have to do this with the old forum. With this one nothing gets 'deleted' it just gets hidden and admin and mods can still read and restore them if necessary