# How do you "delete a post"? {Posters cannot}

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**Created:** [December 18, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-delete-a-post-posters-cannot/956284 "2021-12-18T15:51:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-delete-a-post-posters-cannot/956284/11 "2022-03-28T07:16:08Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> How broken? How did it hurt?

Just read this thread:

> [@Zombies wake up to delete zombies, which wakes them. Huh?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombies-wake-up-to-delete-zombies-which-wakes-them-huh/955982):
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> I’ve noticed a few old posts that suddenly jumped to the top of FQ for no reason and after a bit of digging, realized that they were bumped because the second post in each was deleted. Stranger still, the message is replaced with “(post deleted by author)”, yet neither author has posted in years. One of the deleted posts was visible in the Internet Archive and seems perfectly innocuous. So zombie posters are deleting zombie posts which bumps said zombie threads. Is that intentional and is it re…

It demonstrated the problem, and as a result of that thread they found they had to remove the “delete post” option to avoid that issue.

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