# How does a suppressed message or edit message look like?
**URL:** https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201
**Category:** Discourse Feedback
**Created:** [October 9, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201 "2018-10-09T11:50:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/1 "2018-10-09T11:50:38Z")
Hi, I read that Discourse provides more tools to moderate discussions. I would like to see the UI for a removed message. Can an admin please remove the following message? The message content will be “This is a message that must be removed.”
By the way, I edited this message to add this sentence, to see how a modified post look like 🙂
Update 2, 36 min later: I will post a second message that must be removed an admin, to see if the UI is differently (than the case when I remove my own message). I will post the message: “Can an admin please remove this message? It’s for a test.”
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/3 "2018-10-09T11:53:37Z")
I edited my first message to add the sentence:
> [@vstinner](#):
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> By the way, I edited this message to add this sentence, to see how a modified post look like 🙂
Then I modified my thread title to add “(need admin)”: " How look a suppressed message look like?". Right now, I don’t see any hint that the title and the first post have been modified. Is here an history somewhere?
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/4 "2018-10-09T11:54:36Z")
I edited the title again: “How does a suppressed message or edit message look like?”.
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/5 "2018-10-09T11:57:10Z")
Oh, I even earned a badge because I modified my own post:
[https://discuss.python.org/badges/10/editor?username=vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/badges/10/editor?username=vstinner)
“This badge is granted the first time you edit one of your posts. While you won’t be able to edit your posts forever, **editing is encouraged** — you can improve the formatting, fix small mistakes, or add anything you missed when you originally posted. **Edit to make your posts even better!** ”
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/6 "2018-10-09T11:58:30Z")
Ah, I’m able to remove my own post “This is a message that must be removed.”. Right now, its content is:
“(post withdrawn by author, will be automatically deleted in 24 hours unless flagged)”
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/7 "2018-10-09T12:02:48Z")
> [@vstinner](#):
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> Then I modified my thread title to add “(need admin)”: " How look a suppressed message look like?". Right now, I don’t see any hint that the title and the first post have been modified. Is here an history somewhere?
Oh, edits many in less than 5 minutes are “not considered formal edits”:
> **[How do I view the Edit History?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-view-the-edit-history/68662)**
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> I edited a post and the previous text seems to have disappeared. How do I find the edit history? I have searched the help for “history” and explored the buttons near the post.
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### Author:  [@pitrou](https://discuss.python.org/u/pitrou)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/8 "2018-10-09T12:15:49Z")
> [@vstinner](#):
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> Ah, I’m able to remove my own post “This is a message that must be removed.”.
But it would be nice to know what it looks like when a moderator removes / censors it.
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/10 "2018-10-09T12:29:19Z")
> [@vstinner](#):
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> Oh, edits many in less than 5 minutes are “not considered formal edits” (…)
I modified my first post that I posted 30 minutes. Ok, in that case, I see the pencil icon and have access to the post history. Good!
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### Author:  [@pablogsal](https://discuss.python.org/u/pablogsal)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/11 "2018-10-09T12:43:42Z")
This is an example of a moderator message explaining why something was deleted/edited with moderation highlight. Notice that the deleted message appear hidden. Example (notice the “View 1 hidden reply”):
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/12 "2018-10-09T12:47:23Z")
Pablo removed my reply “Can an admin please remove this message? It’s for a test.” … and I don’t see any notice / hint that this thread contained a message that has been removed ☹
> [@pablogsal](#):
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> This is an example of a moderator message explaining why something was deleted/edited with moderation highlight. Notice that the deleted message appear hidden. Example (notice the “View 1 hidden reply”):
It seems to be a feature reserved to moderators, I don’t see it.
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### Author:  [@pablogsal](https://discuss.python.org/u/pablogsal)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/13 "2018-10-09T14:22:28Z")
If someone flags the comment the whole moderation is done on a separate (and private) conversation with the moderators. Maybe deleting the message is a bit extreme moderation measure without previous conversation.
More info here:
> **[So What Exactly Happens when you "Flag"?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/so-what-exactly-happens-when-you-flag/275/3)**
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> What happens when you flag something? “Enough” trust level 1+ users flag a post as {flag type}. By default this is 3, but it can be overridden as a site setting, or in the future, more of a threshold based on trust levels (e.g. two trust level 3...
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### Author:  [@ambv](https://discuss.python.org/u/ambv)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/14 "2018-10-10T12:54:57Z")
> [@vstinner](#):
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> It seems to be a feature reserved to moderators, I don’t see it.
Looks like it is. I tested while being logged out and the “View 1 hidden reply” message is not there.
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### Author:  [@tjreedy](https://discuss.python.org/u/tjreedy)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/how-does-a-suppressed-message-or-edit-message-look-like/201/15 "2018-10-11T18:52:54Z")
On StackOverflow, being able to delete one’s own questions, comments, and answers is very useful. Besides removing noise, it removes the reputation loss from downvotes. I wish more people would do so.
Its ‘view hidden reply’ lines are limited to people with 10000+ reputation (which gives some other moderation privileges). You mostly don’t want to seem them 😉