No extra details needed. Made a reply when I was tired, regretted it so I went to delete it when I woke up, hasn’t actually gone away yet.
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Pretty sure you have to flag it for staff to remove manually. Don’t ask me why it’s like this.
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Posts are meant to delete within the hour which was normal behavior, not sure what made this one different
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I think you put the wrong one
However, I can see that your post has been deleted but still shows as (post deleted by author)
Yep, don’t know why it copied the wrong link. That one is the one which should be gone.
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Post has been deleted for almost 2 days and its not gone fyi
That’s strange, my post auto hid itself after an hour. I’ve flagged your reply to staff.
Yeah it’s gone now probably because of that. Still soemnthing that should probably be looked into
Posts that have flags against them are not auto-deleted to give moderator time to review (with edit history visible). This is a built-in Discourse feature, we don’t have influence over it with a setting AFAIC.
This doesn’t come up very often, and most of the time when it happens the post was actually breaking the rules, so it doesn’t seem high impact to change at this time. Either way, it’s not technically a bug.
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My bad 
The reason I reported the post to staff is because it would get staff attention to help delete the message as it wasn’t being auto-deleted.
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Got it, yeah I would avoid that since it achieves the opposite unfortunately.
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I feel like at that point the flag would have been reviewed and discarded though? I don’t know the timeline of when it was flagged and when I deleted it but I would have assumed they discarded the flag by the time I deleted the post and it sat in (post deleted by author) for a few days.
It’s been a while since I looked at the source code, but TMK I don’t think Discourse will start deleting the post after the flag is discarded is the problem. If it’s had a flag, resolved or not, it will not be auto-deleted.
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I checked the specific post and yeah this is what happened:
- You deleted it
- Someone flagged it, moderator rejected this flag
- Time passes, post stays up
- A second person flagged the post for not having been auto-deleted
- Moderator now cleaned it up
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Thanks to the explanation. Sounds like it might be a bug so I’ll try on my test site and if I can form a reasonable report I’ll send it to them.
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