Flow contains obscure "suppress" terminology
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	Nemo_bis
	Jul 14 2014, 12:15 AM

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The difference between the various actions is unclear, unexplained, undocumented, probably inconsistent with core. Affected messages include:

Flow-suppress-post-content
Flow-hide-post-content
Flow-delete-post-content
Flow-suppress-post-content

Reported by Lokal Profil at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Flow-suppress-post-content/sv

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URL: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Flow-suppress-post-content/sv

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Reference: bz67967

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Open	None	T62680 the messages with "Hide message hidden by <user>" are not so natural
Invalid	None	T40638 [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone]
Resolved	• Mattflaschen-WMF	T69967 Flow contains obscure "suppress" terminology
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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:28 AM

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Nemo_bis created this task.Jul 14 2014, 12:15 AM

Filed in backlog: https://trello.com/c/JUCGwO1K

Thanks for the report!

My understanding is that 'suppress' serve the same purpose as wikitext suppression (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RevisionDelete / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Suppression ).

Essentially, it's an extra-powerful version of deletion granted to the 'oversight' group.

I believe the others are conceptually consistent with core too:

Hide - Logically (and permission-wise) equivalent to clicking edit on a wikitext talk page, removing a talk page post , then clicking save. In other words, it's no longer readily accessible, but still fully in the history and viewable by non-privileged users.