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@ -14,14 +14,13 @@ The event's `content` field MAY contain a text note describing the reason for th
For example: For example:
``` ```jsonc
{ {
"kind": 5, "kind": 5,
"pubkey": <32-bytes hex-encoded public key of the event creator>, "pubkey": <32-bytes hex-encoded public key of the event creator>,
"tags": [ "tags": [
["e", "dcd59..464a2"], ["e", "dcd59..464a2"],
["e", "968c5..ad7a4"], ["e", "968c5..ad7a4"],
["a", "<kind>:<pubkey>:<d-identifier>"]
], ],
"content": "these posts were published by accident", "content": "these posts were published by accident",
...other fields ...other fields
@ -47,3 +46,9 @@ Relays MAY validate that a deletion event only references events that have the s
## Deleting a Deletion ## Deleting a Deletion
Publishing a deletion event against a deletion has no effect. Clients and relays are not obliged to support "undelete" functionality. Publishing a deletion event against a deletion has no effect. Clients and relays are not obliged to support "undelete" functionality.
## Deleting Replaceable Events
Because of their changing nature it's hard to get rid of all instance of a replaceable event (ranges `10000...19999` and `30000...39999`). We also don't want to publish a `kind:5` targeting an `a` reference and thus permanently delete any future events that could possibly have the same specifieds `kind` and `d`-tag forever.
So instead to delete a replaceable event we **overwrite** it with an event with the same `kind` and `d`-tag, plus a tag `["deleted"]` specifying no other tags.