Minor Suggestion: (Kinda Stupid) Making hidden Questions/Answers unable to be seen by mods.

Question

So, I actually posted some answer on a Mega Thread containing a replay, but I used the wrong method of Downloading and Sharing, and I accidentally posted an answer containing my real info in the URL. Please make it so only you can see your own hidden post.

Comments

Once something is posted in a question or answer, it's pretty much here forever. This is to prevent users who break important rules from denying that they did it. You'll just have to trust the editors and moderators not to click on the link. I'm pretty sure they don't check the history of every post, so you can edit your post and delete the link.

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Just show it, edit really quick, then hide it again. Then again, people will be able to see it if they're there in the time before you hide it again.

Anyways, this may not happen for many reasons, so I think the best thing to do is have Pokemaster delete it, considering it's possible to see past edits. I think I read somewhere only he can delete stuff but extremely rarely, this might be an exception. I'm not sure though, there's probably easier things to do.
Edit: ninja'd by sumwun, by 8 minutes

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^^ Yeah do that. Reshow, edit out the personal info, then hide it. We can't see the edit history of hidden posts. Although you can trust us! We're not serial killers. I mean, the others might be... but I'm not!

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Yeah… totally not…

Answer 1

This has more or less been covered in the comments, but I'll reiterate here so it's somewhat official. The ability for staff members to see hidden posts will stay, because if it weren't we'd encounter problems:

1. People could harass or harm people on the site using their posts, then take down those posts to hide the fact it happened. It would become quite complicated if someone came to us saying they were being harassed by someone, but then we couldn't find any way to prove it because all the posts were invisible to us.

2. If hidden posts become invisible, then there'd be a permanency to hiding stuff that could become problematic. We might later need a hidden post for some reason, or a decision to hide might later be found a mistake. In those cases we'd like to access those posts again, but we couldn't if they were invisible.

This was also mentioned above, but if you accidentally post something you don't like, you can edit your post and clear it out, then take it down. The original version might still be floating around on one of Pokemaster's databases, but from there he might delete it for you.

I totally understand your discomfort having personal info left available for randoms on the internet. But for what it's worth, please know we're not malicious and we'll do our best to respect your privacy wherever possible.