# Anyone know if discord tells you when someone deletes messages? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** discord\ **Created:** [January 7, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203 "2026-01-07T20:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![peterpaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@peterpaul](https://community.redact.dev/u/peterpaul)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/1 "2026-01-07T20:09:00Z")
I am about to mass delete a ton of discord messages and I am concerned that it will notify people when I delete their messages. I am leaving my guild after much drama and fighting, I want to get out liike a ghost in the night. Can anyone confiorm for certain that Discord wont notify users? Like I know that if they go to read old messages they will see that it was deleted but what I am actually concerned with is if there is any proactive type of alert or notice that messages have been deleted… ---
**Author:** ![D-Mag](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/d-mag/32/131_2.png) [@D-Mag](https://community.redact.dev/u/D-Mag)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/2 "2026-01-07T21:00:31Z")
Discord doesnt send proactive “someone deleted messages” alert to regular users. Discord’s audit log is explicitly for administrative actions and includes entries for single message delete and bulk delete actions. Discord also exposes message deletion events (like bulk deletes) that bots and loggers listen for, which is why the “logging bots” can record deletions if a server has them enabled. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/tommy/32/100_2.png) [@Tommy](https://community.redact.dev/u/Tommy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/3 "2026-01-07T21:09:22Z")
the only way they’d probably see is if they have a discord bot recording activity on their server, even then they probably wont notice unless they are activly monitoring their activity log ---
**Author:** ![soyga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@soyga](https://community.redact.dev/u/soyga)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/4 "2026-01-07T21:21:58Z")
This is like the 3rd post the past month from people worried about if others will notice if they delete messages. This generation is soft af 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![derekfrancisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@derekfrancisc](https://community.redact.dev/u/derekfrancisc)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/5 "2026-01-07T21:35:38Z")
> **[Reddit - The heart of the internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/cao2w2/do_people_get_notified_if_i_delete_a_message/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)** the answer is no, they will not know. ---
**Author:** ![tomliver](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/tomliver/32/199_2.png) [@tomliver](https://community.redact.dev/u/tomliver)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/6 "2026-01-07T21:50:13Z")
People are NOT notified when you delete a message on discord​. ---
**Author:** ![lil\_debbie\_cakes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/lil_debbie_cakes/32/141_2.png) [@lil\_debbie\_cakes](https://community.redact.dev/u/lil_debbie_cakes)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/7 "2026-01-08T01:21:38Z")
discord doesn’t notify the other person​ when you delete messages, unless there is some kind of situation where a discord bot like a listening bot is active. otherwise, no. ---
**Author:** ![tank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@tank](https://community.redact.dev/u/tank)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/anyone-know-if-discord-tells-you-when-someone-deletes-messages/203/8 "2026-04-26T22:28:20Z")
Discord doesn’t tell. The drama in the guild will tell on you faster.