How do we find out the cause of deleted posts not shown in the modlog?
How do we find out the cause of deleted posts not shown in the modlog?
I'm just going through my past history, and looking for anything where the subject is "*Permanently Deleted*" and where the Modlog for that community shows nothing.
- (Deleted within the hour) https://lemmy.ml/post/28333996, modlog
- (Deleted 3 days ago) https://lemmy.ml/post/28206502/17786644, modlog
- (Deleted 10 days ago) https://lemmy.ml/post/27878131/17617304, modlog
- (Deleted 13 days ago) https://lemmy.ml/post/27745076/17556469, modlog
None of these appear in the modlog of their respective communities.
I've been told before in an earlier comment chain that this might be due to the post user being permanently deleted.
Is there any way I can verify this as an end-user? Once the post is gone, I can't see the username of who posted it.
It's just a bit of a small hole in the transparency of Lemmy's fantastic moderation
"Permanently deleted" normally means the poster has removed their account and content. In this case, your comment hasn't been removed, but the post you were replying to is gone, because the person who made the post deleted their account. It reads permanently deleted, because that's now the post title in the database
I had a look, seems like for the fedimemes post the poster got banned, and probably their post removed:
it's also the case for deletions without account deletions, but iirc there is some delay before it gets rewritten in the db to allow the user to undelete it for a bit of time.
Is it deleted or removed?
Deleted means that the creator deleted it, which won't be logged to the modlog. Removed means a moderator or admin removed it, which will be logged to the modlog.
It could also be that the user was instance/community banned with the purge content option enabled. Which might confuse you, because the posts won't have a modlog entry regarding their removal. The purge content option's status is not logged along with their ban. So be sure to check if they are instance/community banned as well.
I had a look, seems like for the fedimemes post the poster got banned, and probably their post removed:
I’ve been told before in an earlier comment chain that this might be due to the post user being permanently deleted.
This seems to have been deleted as well? https://lemmy.ml/post/27763393/17564094
What the actual hell. There's nothing in the fedimemes modlog for why it was deleted, and also, the post itself doesn't appear deleted in my history....
I kind of remember this post, this it seems like it's been deleted as well. Something is weird here
Also, do you remember what was the name of the AskLemmy thread from today? This one I can't see either
Ok so I see it from here
But not here: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17565669