Delete Multiple Entries At A Time

[perseph]

Title:
Delete Multiple Entries At A Time

Area:
Entries

Summary:
The ability to checkbox and delete a batch of entries at once.

Description:
I know that this suggestion has been put forward and once rejected, but I would like to suggest it again, if I may, and address the two areas of concern I saw:

1) Security: i.e. Someone hacks and mass-deletes the entries in your journal.

My suggestion would be that when, say 5 or more entries are checked for deletion, clicking Delete will generate an email to the owner of that account, who will then have to go into their email and click a link from there to verify deletion--as with verifying an email account when initially setting up a DW account.

2) Cost: i.e. Implementing mass-anything is very expensive, therefore a mass-deletion tool would have to be a paid feature.

That is a choice I think a lot of us would gladly be faced with. :)

MY ARGUMENT FOR: The reality of the need for a mass-deletion tool is pressing. With so many blogs and journaling sites now across the web (even as compared to two years ago when this feature was originally suggested) and with mass importation becoming indispensable, and thankfully being made easier, the only hiccup is ending up with hundreds of entries you don't need/want/imported by accident, but with which you're stuck if on DW.

A workaround is to set all unwanted entries to Private, but hundreds of unwanted entries can get in the way when you later have to work journal-wide.

Thanks.

Poll #6572 Delete Multiple Entries At A Time

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 69

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Should be implemented as-is.
27 (39.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
20 (29.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (7.2%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (24.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)