Deleting messages

[vilakins]

Title:
Deleting messages

Area:
Inbox

Summary:
It would be good if we could delete messages by category, e.g. all unread, all comments etc. Going into "Unread" and deleting all removes all messages. :-(

I would also like a category for cross-posting updates.

Description:
It would be good if we could delete messages by category, e.g. all unread, all comments etc. Going into "Unread" and deleting all removes all messages. :-(

I would also like a category for cross-posting updates so I could clean those out easily.

Poll #2256 Deleting messages

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (94.7%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.6%)

(I have no opinion)
1 (2.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Excellent idea!

[cesy]

Deleting all when you're in unread sounds like a bug to me.

[vilakins]

Yeah, I expected it to just take out the unread messages (comments and cross-posts) but they all went. :-(

[yvi]

Are you sure that you had messages that were marked read? I have been unable to reproduce this issue, the messages that were marked as read were not deleted when I tried this.

[vilakins]

I was sure I had read PMs but of course I can't be certain now. Sorry.

It would be great to be able to just delete cross-post messages (those especially) and comment notifications though.

[yvi]

Clicking "Delete All" when viewing my "Entries and Comments" folder only deleted those. Or are you talking about comment notifications versus entry notifications? (I have no idea about x-post messages, as I never x-posted)

The main problem here might be that just reading the message doesn't seem to mark it as read, as they are unfolded when you look at them and so can read them, but you need to actually click on them so that they are marked as read. So I suppose you didn't do this and hence they were deleted :/ Which is bad, I agree.

[vilakins]

Oh right, yes, I can delete just comments (does so to test). I was rather incoherent. What I really want is to delete cross-posts the same way.

[msilverstar]

more control over the Inbox / Message Center would be good.

Maybe use the gmail model with tags? It seems like the ultimate goal so we might as well skip the intermediates

[nafs]

I would definitely like a category in the Inbox for cross-posting notifications, it would make housekeeping much easier!