Vbulletin 3.0.3 Thread Soft-Deleted to hard-deleted and (more)

[gigaenvy]

Need some clarification or help on this. Did some searching on the forums here and found little conclusive evidence whether this is a bug or a feature

I created a new thread and my partner soft-deleted the thread with a comment a day later. Also note, we use a mod from Vbulletin.org that displays threads on non-vb pages. This should have little relevance to my problem. Read on.

Weeks later I decided to physically delete (hard-delete) the thread since it was now determined safe to do so. However, the thread still displayed on our non-vb page causing my alarm. After looking in the database, the thread which was soft-deleted and later hard-deleted, was still inside the db. There was no visible evidence of the thread in our forums, only the database.

I just fixed the problem by selectively pruning that one thread. What is the deal here?

Is there a pattern here I should know about, a bug, or is the order of what I did the problem?

Is there a timer or scheduled task I need to know about to make these physical hard-delete happen immediately?

Please learn me!

Thank you

[Steve Machol]

If the thread was hard deleted, then it would have been removed from the database immediately. There is no scheduled task for this.

I can't think of any reason for this to happen on an unhacked forum. In fact I just tried this myself on an unhacked 3.0.7 test forum and could not duplicate this problem. I hard deleted a thread that had already been soft-deleted earlier, and when I check the database the thread was gone.

[gigaenvy]

If the thread was hard deleted, then it would have been removed from the database immediately. There is no scheduled task for this.

I can't think of any reason for this to happen on an unhacked forum. In fact I just tried this myself on an unhacked 3.0.7 test forum and could not duplicate this problem. I hard deleted a thread that had already been soft-deleted earlier, and when I check the database the thread was gone.

Steve,

Thank you for reaffirming. I will test this again and followup with you. This time I will create the post and then hard-delete within minutes and not weeks.