Deleted Posts go to a 'trash bin'/'graveyard'
 

I used to use IPB, and this was a function I liked. Rather than posts being physically deleted, deleted posts were automatically moved put to a forum to be reviewed for deletion at a later date.

I just accidentally deleted an important post, and am wondering if there is a mod or change I can make to do this for vBulletin.

Only admins can 'hard' delete a post. And on our forum, only myself - the super admin - has that permission. All other deleted posts are retained.

So unless you chose to 'hard' delete the post, it's still there and may be undeleted.

Even with a soft-delete, I have to go thread by thread and find them, so I'd rather have a forum that they go to so they are all in one place to review for full deletion.

Just set-up a hidden forum with viewing permissions only for yourself and/or your mods and move troublesome threads or posts there.

Or have it viewable, but closed to posting.

Why? Obsessed with the few bytes they use? Just soft-delete them and forget them.

Just go to your UserCP (not AdminCP!). There, at the bottom of the menu on the left, you will see under "Moderation" entries for soft deleted stuff. There's entries for threads, posts etc. This brings up lists of all soft-deleted items.

Oh cool! What an odd place to hide something like that. I've got 1560 deleted posts going back to 3/2007 which I guess is when I converted to vbulletin. I'm still not going to hard delete any of them though.

This is why I hang out here - learn something new all the time.