identify deleted replies to journal

[kaigou]

Title:
identify deleted replies to journal

Area:
comments

Summary:
Identify the who & where for deleted replies, when listed in Inbox.

Description:
Currently, if a reply is deleted, the Inbox only says "deleted reply for [journalname]". Since (AFAIK) there's no notification to get when someone deletes their reply, it can be a source of confusion to see a reply has been deleted but with no idea who, what, or where for the deletion.

Suggestion is to change this Inbox notification to something like:

"Deleted reply to post, [date]*: comment by [username] in [post title]."

Poll #3299 identify deleted replies to journal

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Should be implemented as-is.
39 (79.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (8.2%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (10.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

*first version was misleading, now revised. (I didn't mean "date of deletion" but "date of post that got reply", something that helps clarify which post -- for those folks who either never actually title their posts or tend to use repetitive titles, having the date helps specify the post involved.)

Comments

[afuna]

I don't think there's any way to tell when the comment was deleted, but otherwise I'm all for this. I think the username and the entry it was posted to is a decent balance between privacy and context.

[kaigou]

Oh! I didn't mean when the comment was deleted, but when the post itself was made -- sorry, wasn't so clear there. (I didn't even think of your interpretation, since it didn't even occur to me that anything in the database would track that.)

[azurelunatic]

Hit-the-server time or calendar time?

[kaigou]

Hunh. I just went & looked at the Inbox (now that I have something in it, since I'd so intelligently cleared it out and THEN thought of the suggestion, thus had only memory to go on). Current pattern is:

-- New comment by [username] on [post title] in [journalname].

So I suppose if it's all the same but instead says "Deleted comment" instead of "new comment", that's still better than just "deleted comment in [journalname]".

[msilverstar]

I would love to know everything about a deleted comment, the more info, the better.