# How to delete posts?

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-to-delete-posts/32754>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-to-delete-posts/32754 "2017-11-06T09:23:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mika/32/27810_2.png) [@Mika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mika)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-to-delete-posts/32754/1 "2017-11-06T09:23:59Z")

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Hmm, it was not as it seemed. Raksha kills count. Why I can’t delete posts? If I can, how?

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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 9:37am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-to-delete-posts/32754/2 "2017-11-06T09:37:56Z")

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PM/ping a mod and ask them to delete the thread. If you aren’t the OP, then push the “…” under the post. That should bring up a garbage can option that will delete the post. Not sure how it works if you **are** the OP, but a mod will be able to delete the thread. @Ozball?

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**Author:** ![Mika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mika/32/27810_2.png) [@Mika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mika)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-to-delete-posts/32754/3 "2017-11-06T10:28:08Z")

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Thank you for the detailed answer. So the post had its meaning after all, since it can help others too. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-to-delete-posts/32754/4 "2017-11-06T18:48:54Z")

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There are two reasons why threads can’t be deleted, as far as I can tell. For one, even “useless” threads can provide value to someone with a similar question in the future, and for another, deleting a thread would delete all comments too, and that’d give the OP a lot of power to bury comments s/he doesn’t like.

In some circumstances, such as spam, we will delete a thread; in others, like threads that are constantly derailing, we’ll lock them. Usually, though, we’ll leave them alone, and threads that are not relevant will just gracefully age out.