when a message is deleted, it should...
immediately disappear for everyone and be permanently missing from history (Discord behavior)
11.1%
be immediately replaced with a "deleted message" marker, which remains in the history (Matrix behavior)
55.6%
be immediately replaced with a "deleted message" marker, but disappear from history
27.8%
something else
5.6%
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 if you answer "something else" please reply with what the something else is
 presently i am feeling like #3 is the right answer. but would like to know others' feelings on it
 i think in trying to make what these mean clear, i made it less clear
 separately, unread notifications for deleted messages...
should remain with the original text visible (old Discord behavior)
0%
should be replaced with "Deleted message" but remain unread (Matrix behavior)
42.5%
should be revoked (new Discord behavior)
55%
something else
2.5%
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 admins of communities should...

(i can see 1 being useful for antispam but also highly abusable. could be dealt with by an audit log)

be able to "expunge" messages, completely erasing them without any trace, ala deletion method #1
62.9%
not have a special form of super-delete
37.1%
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@exa Server (not zone) administrator at minimum should have the ability to expunge, (since they could theoretically edit the database if they wanted to), but should be able to allow zones to expunge if they want.

Having an audit log would be good either way