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Is there any way to read flagged posts? That thread is near useless without that context

• zahlman 2y ago
  Hi, I am the OP of that thread. As my opening post there says, I was going to leave anyway - so I don't particularly mind being banned, but I do consider most of what they said about me to be defamatory and untrue (and the rest to be irrelevant). I'm admittedly no stranger to this sort of drama in the tech world - so I made local backups of my posts throughout that discussion (across multiple threads), because I knew there was a chance that I and others could lose access to them. But the specific way in which they went about things was beyond what I could have imagined. But regarding your question: the linked forum uses the Discourse software, and its standard policies apply. Posts which were "temporarily hidden by the community" (in some cases, this can be done unilaterally) are only visible to logged-in users who have reached a certain "trust level" (which is also involved in weighting flags). If you are logged in and subscribe to a thread, you can (as I understand it) configure your account so that replies are emailed to you. Generally this would happen before a post can be hidden, and you'd have an irrevocable record of it. However, this doesn't help with previous posts. There's an outside chance that archival websites have copies of those forum threads taken at the right time to include currently-hidden posts. Alternately, I've put my own archives on my blog: https://zahlman.github.io/dpo_archive/ https://zahlman.github.io/dpo_archive/ .