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As a moderator, I've frequently found that I want to see the undoctored transcript for an event. Currently, we see the following by default (the same as what a non-moderator user sees):

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However, through a series of odd clicks we can pull up the history of a deleted message. Here's something closer to what I'd like to see:

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Would it be possible to unhide removed messages for moderators to see, using the deleted post color? For one or two messages, it's not an issue - just a few clicks away. However, this would make it far easier to understand and parse chat logs with many deleted messages.

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Here's a userscript (the relevant part, other than the template wrapper, is literally 7 lines of code by the Power of jQuery™):

// ==UserScript==
// @name Show deleted chat messages for Stack Exchange
// @grant none
// @match *://chat.stackexchange.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

setTimeout(function() {

    var userscript = function($) {

    $('span.deleted').closest('.message').each(function() {
        var id = this.id.replace('message-', ''), _this = this;
        $.get('//chat.stackexchange.com/messages/' + id + '/history', function(data) {
            var msgtxt = data.match(/<div class="content">([\s\S]+?)<\/div>/)[1].trim();
            $('.content > span', _this).html(msgtxt).css({backgroundColor: '#f4eaea', color: '#000'});
        });
    });

    };

    var el = document.createElement('script');
    el.type = 'text/javascript';
    el.text = '(' + userscript + ')(jQuery);';
    document.head.appendChild(el);

}, 2000);

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To use the userscript, you have a few options:

  • Install Tampermonkey (Chrome/Chromium) or Greasemonkey (Firefox), and then simply click on this link, which should automagically install the script.

  • If you don't want to do that, if you're on Chrom{e,ium}, you can still click that link, right click and press "save page as" (or just press Ctrl+S), save it somewhere, type chrome://extensions into the URL bar, and then drag'n'drop the .user.js file into it, which should also install the script.

For other browsers or alternative options, you can also just Google for "install userscript [browser]."

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    GO jQuery! Down JS!
    – Braiam
    Jan 8, 2015 at 1:15
  • Actually you need an extension first to use userscripts.
    – Universal Electricity
    Jun 19, 2015 at 12:53
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    @UniKitty Not in Chrome/Chromium. In Firefox, the userscript should work with GreaseMonkey.
    – Doorknob
    Jun 19, 2015 at 12:54
  • @Doorknob But I needed to install tampermonkey first for it to work.
    – Universal Electricity
    Jun 19, 2015 at 12:57
  • @UNICYCLEZ: You can install user scripts directly as Chrome extensions without Tampermonkey, it's just (nowadays) somewhat difficult. (It used to be a lot easier, but apparently enough clueless folks ended up installing malicious user scripts that the Chrome folks made it hard to install any kind of extensions from outside the Chrome Web Store.)
    – Ilmari Karonen
    Nov 16, 2015 at 23:07
  • Just an FYI, this might need a rate limit. I think (?) it's failing for large transcripts. Would be willing to help run tests, though. Also, might just edit one on later :P
    – user206222
    Nov 17, 2015 at 4:57
  • You probably ought to add matches to the MSE and SO chatrooms as well.
    – Quill
    Jan 14, 2016 at 6:16
  • This doesn't work for me, on Chrome on Ubuntu.
    – Mithical
    Jul 24, 2017 at 9:26

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