Originally Posted by
SkeptiCallie
I was commenting (or thought that I was) that posts are still in the FT system even if deleted. It was a general comment on how the system works. That was all.
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I thought the OP and others might find it interesting to know that these deleted posts show up.
To be more accurate, what you had described was the bug in the system. The search bug hasn't been fixed by IB. They've known this bug for many months. I don't know why IB hasn't fixed it. We've covered this discussion in
your other thread on this very issue.
If the IB Beta Search had worked as our FT Classic Search, FTers shouldn't have seen any deleted post with the trash icon attached from any search result. Since the Beta Search is still buggy, every FTer (including mods) is currently seeing deleted posts.
Post deletion appears to be an OMNI-specific feature. As a non-techie FTer, I do know the option to delete a post only exists in OMNI (assuming OMNI/PR as well). It seems there's more features enabled/implemented in OMNI. I haven't seen the "delete" option in any of the other fora that I've posted.
Judging from the example post OP had provided, when an OMNI (/PR) post is deleted by the original poster, it loses the place holder in say thread. Before the search bug is fixed by IB, such deleted post will still be viewable (in the form of first two lines of text with a trashcan to the right) to FTers in search result.