Recovering Deleted Threads

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Amsel :D (Banned) Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:17pm

So one of the mods in a group I run went a litty cookoo, and started deleting stuff. Anyone know if I can contact Steam support, or if there's any way to get these threads back?

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Amsel :D (Banned) Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:32pm

Anyone? This seems to be getting flooded out, and it's a rather important problem.

Matt Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:39pm

If the threads are soft deleted then you should see them as the owner... If the threads were permanently then they cannot be recovered.

Amsel :D (Banned) Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:39pm

Originally posted by Matt:
If the threads are soft deleted then you should see them as the owner... If the threads were permanently then they cannot be recovered.

I only gave permission for officers to delete comments at all though, why was a moderator able to permanently delete threads?

(Thanks for responding <3 )

Last edited by Amsel :D; Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:40pm

Matt Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:46pm

Is the issue comments or discussions posts being deleted? Those are different things.

Amsel :D (Banned) Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:48pm

Originally posted by Matt:
Is the issue comments or discussions posts being deleted? Those are different things.

It's threads on the forums. I'm guessing that the comment deleted privledges doesn't extend to the forums?

Matt Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:51pm

Moderators and officers get delete thread permissions on the forum. It just comes default cause it's a role of a moderator. Don't make someone a moderator if you don't want them doing this.

In any case, if you are the group owner and cannot see the deleted thread in question, then it's gone forever.

Amsel :D (Banned) Aug 19, 2015 @ 12:52pm

Originally posted by Matt:
Moderators and officers get delete thread permissions on the forum. It just comes default cause it's a role of a moderator. Don't make someone a moderator if you don't want them doing this.

In any case, if you are the group owner and cannot see the deleted thread in question, then it's gone forever.

That's a real pitty, if there's nothing that can be done, I guess I should just thank you for your time.

Matt Aug 19, 2015 @ 1:01pm

What can be done is going forward only choose responsible moderators. You can at least prevent this from reoccurring.

I could permanently delete every thread in this forum if I wanted to. But I don't want to and it's not something I would do anyway.

Amsel :D (Banned) Aug 19, 2015 @ 1:04pm

Originally posted by Matt:
What can be done is going forward only choose responsible moderators. You can at least prevent this from reoccurring.

I could permanently delete every thread in this forum if I wanted to. But I don't want to and it's not something I would do anyway.

It was a friend who insisted on making him a moderator, that's why I'm so bothered by there being no way to undo it, I have a bit of a more serious/private issue that I need to talk about, may I add you?