A Standalone VM that I made was hacked while using Qubes. I made a post about this. It was deleted. Why was this post was deleted? I made it several days ago.
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How did you determine and come to the conclusion you were 'hacked'?Off-topic in this thread
Things don't get "hacked" the way you described it. If I remember correctly, you refused to provide logs based on your threat model, leaving us with a bunch of text and nothing else to work with.The topic wasn’t deleted:
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/hacked-while-using-qubes/21922
Edit: moved this topic to the Forum Feedback category.
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Ok, let’s figure this out. @moderators Is this intentional for posts in that category?
The OP did get an answer, though, so if they couldn’t see it either, that’s probably unintentional.
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Even if you don’t like the question or don’t like the lack of logs deleting the entire question seems very severe.
I posted this right after it happened and didn’t even want to use Qubes for days. I have no way of knowing best steps to mitigate this. It would have helped to know if what I described in the post would be explained by a hack or if there’s some other possible explanation.
I also don’t know whether I should reinstall all of Qubes or try a different distro for the StandAlone VM and whether it means all of my networking Qubes got compromised.
It would have been nice if I could have had feedback from other people instead of having the post deleted by someone who didn’t like it with no explanation so I have no feedback at all.
When I open that link I get page not found. So it’s not deleted?
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@dispuser Did you read my answer? Your topic wasn’t deleted, and you indeed got feedback in that threaf!
I can’t read that page.
Here is the address:
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/hacked-while-using-qubes/21922
Here is what shows when I open that:
Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
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No, it was only moved to an adequate category, and you got a reply in it. Now, if you can’t see it, that seems unintentional, and I’ve asked the question already.
Please hold on for a bit while we figure this out, apologies for the inconvenience on behalf of the moderation team.
Especially, I understand these are probably stressful times, and the misunderstanding may be all the more upsetting as a result. We do our best to organise the forum and keep it a good place to learn and share, but indeed sometimes make mistakes. 
Sorry about this poor experience. It was in fact a combination of misconfiguration of the forum and miscommunication of the moderators.
It should now be accessible. So it was in fact no deleted, just moved to a category that was available to moderators but not yet to regular users.
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