# Reporting and removing content

If content that violates our community guidelines is posted in any of our communication channels, please follow the steps below to remove the content. If you are the one who posted it by accident, please remove it if possible. If someone else has posted it or you are in a channel you do not have privileges to delete, contact the appropriate Simpler.Grants.gov administrator to remove it.

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**Note:** Many of the steps to remove content involve contacting platform administrators.
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## Slack

### If it was a message that *you* posted:

1. Select the `More options` menu (the three vertically stacked dots that appear when you hover over your post)
2. Choose either `Edit message` or `Delete message` to remove the content

### If it was a message that *someone else* posted:

1. Contact a Slack admin
2. The Slack admin will follow the steps above to delete the post from that channel

## GitHub

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**Important**

Only *administrators* can remove sensitive content from GitHub because content added to GitHub will remain visible in the history of the codebase until an administrator scrubs it from the repository.
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1. Contact a GitHub administrator who is a software engineer
2. They will scrub the content from the history of the code repository

## Change log

Major updates to the content of this page will be added here.

<table><thead><tr><th width="175">Date</th><th width="190">Update</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>2/12/2024</td><td>Initial Content</td><td>Updated with Initial content</td></tr><tr><td>1/31/2025</td><td>Removed out of date content</td><td>Removed "Google Groups" section which is no longer accurate to team processes.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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