Is there an archive for deleted steam discussions?

[BigBallinChester]

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[Azza ☠]

It would most likely work like every single other forum works.

There's a soft and hard removal option for admins and mods. "Soft" - hides it from public view, but can still be seen or even recovered by admins/mods. "Hard" - is the actual physical removal of it from the database.

Most use the "soft" approach, till the maintenance run clean.

[Your_White_Knight]

Not that I know of....

Word is that the threads and posts aren't deleted... just hidden from the public.

[Phantom]

Deleted discussions on their own are not archived.

The older Steam forums from 2012 and so on, may have some user-made archives via web archive.

Currently, here, once a thread is deleted, moderators / administrators should have the ability to view them.

This is obvious, because it also applies to forums in community group pages.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

I suspect the moderators have a secret "hall of infamy" forum, where the very worst threads get moved to for posterity. You know, the threads that are just too entertaining to delete entirely.

On another note, moderators have the full community history about a user (bans and what not).

So, it's easy to identify problematic users.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

I suspect the moderators have a secret "hall of infamy" forum, where the very worst threads get moved to for posterity. You know, the threads that are just too entertaining to delete entirely.

It's happened before in one of my previous jobs. There was a collection of stupid trolls and dumb support questions, whenever you encounter some new idiot to deal with, you could always just look back and laugh.

[Your_White_Knight]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

I suspect the moderators have a secret "hall of infamy" forum, where the very worst threads get moved to for posterity. You know, the threads that are just too entertaining to delete entirely.

A game i'll not mention... had one of those "hall of imfamy" sub-forum for a long time... they finally got rid of it because it was the biggest forum with the most posts in it... lol. I even believe people were actually only participating in there...

[BigBallinChester]

NVM, mod deleted my last thread and it scared me when the message was "Personal name". Which I thought it was someone or me said our real name, so I wanted to go back to see how bad the damage was but my name got changed.

Turns out Sass is a banned word. I guess the mods might be ESL.

[s w e k]

Originally posted by S@sshole:

Turns out Sass is a banned word. I guess the mods might be ESL.

Of course "Sass" accompanied with "hole" is not allowed.

[Trundle]

Oh good OP trying to bypass the filter....

[BigBallinChester]

Originally posted by T♥r♥u♥n♥d♥l♥e:

Oh good OP trying to bypass the filter....

Well I wasn't trying to bypass it. Since sass is a word.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by S@sshole:

Originally posted by T♥r♥u♥n♥d♥l♥e:

Oh good OP trying to bypass the filter....

Well I wasn't trying to bypass it. Since sass is a word.

We all know what it means...

Another word for it would be 'cheeky' and you are merging it with the word '****hole'.

Yet you honestly still wonder why it's being censored?

[Your_White_Knight]

Originally posted by S@sshole:

Originally posted by T♥r♥u♥n♥d♥l♥e:

Oh good OP trying to bypass the filter....

Well I wasn't trying to bypass it. Since sass is a word.

Well you are now... by putting the "@" in there... that will get you another one.