Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-961279-20170408180900/@comment-961279-20170408203606

To clarify, "fully deleted" means that people without administrator rights cannot see it. I'm aware that articles are not removed from the server in case they need to be undeleted in the future.

One of the ways to deal with vandals and trolls is to deny recognition. By removing their edits so that the average public cannot see them, you're a step closer to denying them an audience. Granted, not everyone is going to know that they can click on a timestamp to see an edit, but if you can go further and remove access to an edit that only an admin can get at again in the future, it's another step in denying recognition. As I have said on other occasions, if others can't see what a vandal has been doing, it helps take away some of their fun and many of them will give up or go elsewhere to find an audience.