If somebody posts something illegal (like CSAM), you don’t want to simply deactivate it and leave it available for ‘review’ in the mod log. You need the ability to ensure it is not only hidden, but completely and totally deleted in memory, on the disk, in the database, on any caches / CDNs, etc.
What’s a purge?
If somebody posts something illegal (like CSAM), you don’t want to simply deactivate it and leave it available for ‘review’ in the mod log. You need the ability to ensure it is not only hidden, but completely and totally deleted in memory, on the disk, in the database, on any caches / CDNs, etc.
Oh okay. And then do you write a report to the government or something? Sorry I haven’t modded a forum since I was like 9
Requirement to do so depends on two different factors: Hosting country and site owner country, both of which claim jurisdiction.
Mods have the ability to mass remove someone posts and comments from a comm when they ban them