Technical Note: When a site moderator deletes flagged posts in a report via the admin panel, that also deletes their content from the report.

This is bad design, because it means that deleting the posts to resolve a report also removes the record of what was in them That record is often necessary in order to:

• understand (later) why they were deleted
• notice if they're part of a pattern which the reported user is continuing
• share knowledge among multiple moderators

Does anyone know if there's a trouble-ticket for this?

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