Just got thinking there (inspired by some recent conversations), can the way way post deletion works be changed, this is mainly to keep continuity of topics/conversations.
For example say there is 20 posts in a topic and the 5th post is questionable and there are 3 posts after it that reply directly to the questionable content and bring the topic off the original topic. You go and 'delete' (flag change on the post in the database) the 4 questionable posts but what actually happens that they can still be seen in the context of the topic by only mods & admins for continuity reasons and a comment can be added by whoever 'deleted' the posts so other mods & admins can see why they were deleted.
Then there is then a page (bin) or whatever you want to call it, were you can purge 'deleted' posts and this purge will permanently delete the selected posts from the database?
For example say there is 20 posts in a topic and the 5th post is questionable and there are 3 posts after it that reply directly to the questionable content and bring the topic off the original topic. You go and 'delete' (flag change on the post in the database) the 4 questionable posts but what actually happens that they can still be seen in the context of the topic by only mods & admins for continuity reasons and a comment can be added by whoever 'deleted' the posts so other mods & admins can see why they were deleted.
Then there is then a page (bin) or whatever you want to call it, were you can purge 'deleted' posts and this purge will permanently delete the selected posts from the database?