Edit, Delete, and Moderation
You can edit your own posts, delete them, and you can mute or block other users. All four are signed transactions. Nothing on Octra is actually deleted, but tombstones and filters keep deleted posts out of feeds.
Pipoke runs on Octra Devnet today. Any fee, price, or limit referred to here is a contract setting chosen for testing. Every one is owner-settable, and mainnet values will be different. These docs describe how the mechanics work, not what the numbers are.
#Edit a post
edit_post(post_id, new_text, new_attachment) updates a post you authored. The feed shard stores the new text and the new attachment URI alongside the original epoch. The audit trail of edits is on-chain: anyone can see when a post was edited and what changed.
You can edit any post you wrote, anytime. There is no Premium-gated "longer edit window." The cap on edits is your daily action cap and the per-edit POKE fee.
#Delete a post
delete_post(post_id) writes a tombstone on the post. The indexer and the app stop rendering deleted posts. The original storage stays in the shard (the chain does not delete), so a determined reader could still pull the bytes, but the live Pipoke feed does not surface them.
You can only delete your own posts.
#Mute
mute_user(target) flips a bit on your profile. The Pipoke app's indexer respects mutes on the read side: posts and replies from a muted wallet stop appearing in your feed. The muted wallet does not get a notification. They can still reply to your posts, you just do not see them.
unmute_user(target) reverses the flip.
#Block
block_user(target) is mute plus a one-way ban. The target cannot reply to your posts, cannot poke you, cannot DM you, and cannot mention you in a way the indexer surfaces to you. Blocking is visible on-chain.
unblock_user(target) lifts the block.
#Report
Reports do not live on the main feed shard. They route to the community where the report is filed (if any) or to a moderation queue inside the relevant community. There is no global Pipoke moderation queue. See communities/moderation and appeals.
#What the chain does not let you do
A few things you might expect from a centralized platform are not possible here:
- You cannot delete someone else's post.
- You cannot delete a reply to your post.
- You cannot rewrite the edit history. Every edit is a new revision URI; the previous revisions stay.
- You cannot hide a post you do not own from anyone but yourself (via mute or block).
This is the trade-off of putting the social layer on chain. The chain enforces ownership of the action, including the right to edit and the lack of right to silence someone else.