Button to Bulk-Delete 0-Entry Tags

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Button to Bulk-Delete 0-Entry Tags

Area:
tags, entries, the little things that irk us

Summary:
Create some sort of easy interface to bulk-delete tags that have no entries assigned to them. This will make it easier for people to manage their tags.

Description:
Sometimes you accidentally create a tag with typos or something, and you fix it, but then the tag is just hanging around with zero entries, or you've created a tag but manually merged it with another one.

Originally someone mentioned that, well, what if tags with zero associated entries were just automatically deleted? but that would break site use for people (and communities) who have created tags that they intend to use for the future, but who have not used them yet.

A quick way to bulk-delete empty tags seems like the best compromise for not breaking existing use and streamlining things for people who need to clean out their empty tags.

Suggested user interface: a button to delete all tags with 0 entries, followed by a confirmation page, listing the tags that will be deleted, with checkboxes so that if someone realizes that they had indeed created a tag that they were planning to use but hadn't used it, then they can save it. (All boxes checked by default, ability to uncheck, then a button to delete.) Possibly an are-you-sure, there-is-no-going-back warning dialog after that.

Poll #3188 Button to Bulk-Delete 0-Entry Tags

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 66

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Should be implemented as-is.
62 (93.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (6.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

New subscription: Entries I Have Posted

[azurelunatic]

Title:
New subscription: Entries I Have Posted

Area:
entries, esn, tracking our site participation

Summary:
Similar to 'email me copies of my comments', an 'email me copies/links to my entries' setting. Particularly useful for entries in communities.

Description:
One of the common wishes I've seen is "locate all my community entries over the years", and having a subscription to send those out as they happen (for someone who knows in the first place that they're going to want this) would help with that.

Comment notifications help with some locating community entries, because each comment notification includes the link, and top-level comments include a copy of the entry, but not all entries get comments, and not everyone has subscribed to comment notifications. This would be particularly helpful for people who post community entries but don't subscribe to notifications of new comments.

If it happens, there would be a couple things to work out.

Should it be for entries only in communities, or should it include entries to your own journal as well? Perhaps those should be separate subscriptions.

Should it only be a link to the entry, with, say, the community name and entry title (less volume to send, easier on your inbox), or should it be the whole entry (better preservation of your words in case the community up and disappears, fills up your storage space faster)? (I'm inclined to whole-entry myself, although a digest mode that took your community activity for the last day and linked to them all would certainly be interesting also.)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this would be a paid user feature, because the "email me a copy of my own comments" was a paid user feature last I checked, and subscriptions are srs bzns on the resource-eating end.

Poll #3189 New subscription: Entries I Have Posted

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (50.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
12 (26.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.2%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (21.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)