Let us view our deleted posts - privately

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I'll post this in SiteStuff but wanted to gather opinions first in the higher traffic feminism chat.

I think it would be useful if MNHQ allowed us as individuals to view our own deleted posts within a thread, so that we can at least learn from our mistakes.

Perhaps this would be possible by allowing a logged in user to see their own deleted post within a thread - marked up as deleted and not visible to others.

For example, I've just been deleted on a thread and I thought I had adhered to guidelines, although apparently I haven't. No email yet.
I'm in the dark.

This would be such a useful tool. It would still meet MNHQ criteria by censoring it to everyone bar the poster, and would provide feedback to the poster in context to help them avoid similar infractions.

Especially now we are in the three strikes and you're out era.

Would anyone else want this?

I agree it's very annoying when your own posts gets deleted and you can't remember what it was.

They send an email to you if you report a post and it gets deleted, the email contains the deleted post with "we agree it breaks talk guidelines"

I strongly feel that they should send an email to the person who's post is deleted with a similar message.

Rather than a complicated system where you're own posts is visible to you but no one else which would be I imagine tricky to program, just an email.

Then you can also keep track of number of posts deleted.

Absolutely. And in fact a clear reasoning behind all deletions in order to determine whether or not consistency is being applied. In these circumstances 'breaks talk guidelines' is too little information for everyone on the thread.

Absolutely.

I don't keep copies of my posts ( does anyone? should we?)- so if it were to be deleted I would have no record, and no way of analysing my wording and learning from the transgression.

it would be a useful educational tool to have the post quoted in the deletion message.

thanks.

Another issue is that if I try to do an advanced search on my own posts, any post which has been deleted doesn't get returned in the search. The search results will return two posts in a thread, rather than three, if one of the three is deleted. It's as if the original post didn't exist. Which means I have no way of seeing how many posts I have had deleted. I have to accidentally stumble over the 'deleted' message in a thread.

We are at risk of very quickly falling foul of the three strikes rule if we
a. don't receive an email
b. have no feedback of what exactly was wrong with the post
c. cannot use search for recent deleted posts

I'm trying to play by the rules but I need some feedback here.

Agreed - I rarely check back on posts I've previously made, so no idea if any of them have been deleted. How can I possibly be expected to know I need to change my wording if I'm not notified that my previous wording choices have been found to break the rules??