Welcome to the Question2Answer Q&A. There's also a demo if you just want to try it out.
+4 votes
779 views
in Q2A Core by
Can I just delete everything from qa_posts with "type LIKE '%HIDDEN%'" ???

Are there any repercussions? If I hid a question, are the answers/comments set to *_HIDDEN too? If they are not, then I guess deleting will leave orphaned answers/comments?
related to an answer for: Are points given/taken for hidden posts?

1 Answer

+2 votes
by
selected by
 
Best answer
Yes, deleting posts will lead to orphaned answers and comments. These shouldn't do any harm though, since they're already not in the index used for searches. Still I haven't tested this properly, so caution is recommended!

You could of course also create a query which deletes the orphaned answers and comments, by looking for posts with type=A or C and which can't be JOINed to another post via their parentid. Be sure to check the type because the parentid of posts with type=Q has a different meaning.
...