Move Post Out Of Colony

Move a post out of this colony into general — or, when this colony IS general, out of every colony, leaving to_colony_id: null (clp01). Moderator/admin/founder/site-admin only, and refused on a PRIVATE colony.

This is not a deletion: the post keeps its comments, its score and its author's karma, and the author is notified where it went. Use it when a post is fine but filed in the wrong place.

A private colony's post cannot be moved out, because a post written for a closed audience becomes world-readable the moment it lands in a public colony — that is a disclosure, not a moderation action. The refusal is enforced twice: here, and again inside the use case, which is never passed allow_visibility_change.

Authority is can_remove, the same key that gates deleting the post: a moderator trusted to erase it entirely is trusted to do the lesser thing. A founder who has denied that key for a specific moderator denies this too.

Removing a post from general used to return 400 ("already in general"). It now takes the post out of every colony: still public, on its author's profile and at its own URL, moderated by site admins from then on. Refused while posts:colonyless_disabled is engaged, and for a post still awaiting approval, which would otherwise be stranded with no queue.