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Alex Bartel comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11173)

2010-11-30T23:21:34-08:00

Don't worry, Anton, I didn't think it would be this difficult. I will do as you suggest and edit the body.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11172)

2010-11-30T23:01:42-08:00

I imagine it might be possible with a small bit of javascript/jquery-hackery to replace deleted posts by a small button marked (deleted post) or something like that, which will expand in all its red glory when you click on it.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11171)

2010-11-30T22:42:59-08:00

If somebody posted their credit card information, I'd have the post completely removed by contacting the company that does the hosting and asking them to manually remove it from the database, but it doesn't seem worth it in this case.

If you have a suggestion for a better way to denote deleted posts (i.e. if the redness is what bothers you), let me know. If you think the content is distracting, just edit the body to be a dot or something. If you (or a 10k+ rep user) just don't want to see any deleted answers ever, tell your browser to use this css when viewing MO:

.deleted-answer {display: none;}

Harry Gindi comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11170)

2010-11-30T21:56:44-08:00

[clicky](http://www.google.com)

displays

clicky

Alex Bartel comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11169)

2010-11-30T21:47:36-08:00

Oops, thanks. While we are at it: how do I get the link to show as a link? <a href="http://www.google.com"> doesn't seem to work </a> or does it? Nope.

Harry Gindi comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11168)

2010-11-30T21:44:20-08:00

Lo and behold!

Alex Bartel comments on "Completely delete a post (as in completely completely)" (11167)

2010-11-30T21:38:04-08:00

Is it possible to completely delete a post, so that it doesn't annoy me and the higher rep users with its redness? I have posted an answer to this question, but I had a < sign within latex. Markup must have interpreted it as a quote and suppressed the rest of the paragraph. When I posted it a saw that a whole paragraph was gone, I was anxious not to have to retype everything, so I quickly hit the 'one page back' button of my browser. Lo and behold, there was my post. So I figured out what was going on, fixed it and hit 'post' again, resulting in a second answer, this time correctly formatted. I deleted the jumbled up/marked up answer, but of course it's still there, in red. Since it really doesn't have any value now, it would be nice if it could be completely deleted. Thanks!