Taking Care of Posts

[Foxx]

I'm curious to know what you fellow admin do with posts and threads that brake your forum's rules.

Do you soft delete them, remove them, move them, or something else?

I always like to move all posts that are rule breaking and straight up spam to a sub-forum of a hidden staff forum usually titled "spam/trash posts." I like to do it this way because it insures I'll always have record of it. If something ever comes up where the member is unhappy about the situation I always have the post for proof.

I don't like deleting anything, not even members. It never hurts to have these things stored somewhere in case you ever need to pull them back out again for reviewing.

What are your ways of dealing with this stuff in terms of removing it from the forum?

[ALEX]

I soft delete posts. I do not allow my moderators to physically remove posts, topics or anything else. I don't even hard delete anything or anyone.

I am going to set up a trash can for AU, just to be more organized in what we delete. I just have to get one thing sorted out before I do that though.

[SawanM]

With phpBB you can't soft delete, so I just delete them off the board.