board.net-maintenance.md

+## deleting boards
+
+As Pads are used anonymously we do not apply any roles, so we can not allow somebody to make deletions, else that would cause conflicts among users (think of pupils). 
+
+If you want to have a pad deleted please write a message to support@fairkom.eu
+
+As a sysadmin we do
+
+```
+su etherpad
+cd /opt/etherpad-lite/src
+node bin/checkPad.js test
+node bin/deletePad.js test
+```
+
+The adminpads2 plugin is too slow see https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2899#issuecomment-779611308
+
+Or we delete by API call see https://etherpad.org/doc/latest/#index_http_api get secret from APIKEY.txt
+
+         curl "https://board.net/api/1/deletePad?apikey=secret029b3f1&padID=Myseminar-B3S"
+
+If we only know the read only link, we need to get the PadID first:  
+
+       "https://board.net/api/1.2.14/getPadID?apikey=apikey...&roID=r.dcaf13c86f0df1fbb3627394515087c3"
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