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dw_suggestions2010-08-20 02:38 pm
Delete All Entries/Comments Upon Journal Deletion
Title:
Delete All Entries/Comments Upon Journal Deletion
Area:
Accounts, Entries
Summary:
Livejournal now features a ( delete all comments and posts ) option when a user chooses to delete their journal from Account Settings. It would be nice to see this option implemented on Dreamwidth.
Description:
On Dreamwidth, when users select to delete a non-community account, they should be given the option to delete all comments and community posts site-wide. Upon selection, the entries and comments are immediately removed from view, but I assume they're not fully removed from the database until the account is purged to prevent abuse in hacking/account theft incidences.
This feature has recently been implemented on Livejournal, and it's beneficial for several reasons.
1) It clears the servers of unneeded data once the journal is purged.
2) For privacy reasons, it gives users another option to effortlessly delete their content without affecting the content of another user, and without having to track down every entry and comment across the entirety of the site.
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
20 (28.2%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (8.5%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
34 (47.9%)
(I have no opinion)
10 (14.1%)
(Other: please comment)
1 (1.4%)
Updates
Expressed concerns:
- It presents the option to someone who otherwise might not be looking for it.
- It interferes with conversation across the site, leaving conversations disjointed.
Not implemented :
- [Suggestion] The ability to search for every post you have made to a community without entering the community directly - something similar to the Recent Comments/Latest Posted Comments page.
- [Suggestion][Suggested by Others] The ability to mass Orphan Comments/Entries posted outside of your own journals/communities, which detaches your identity to the content. I'm not sure how this would work, but someone else would have to suggest this.
- [Suggestion][Suggested by Others] If a mass delete button were to be put in place, then textbox or checkbox capability for excluding certain journals and communities from the deletion of comments/entries.
On http://www.dreamwidth.org/editjournal :
- [Suggestion] A delete button with confirmation for [Delete this Entry].
- [Suggestion] Perhaps the option to mass delete would be located on this page, separate from the Delete Journal confirmation page to avoid clicking the option without fully reading over it and considering its consequences.
On http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/recent_comments :
- [Bug] A clearer visual of comments that are already deleted with grayed out text, or the [delete] changed to [deleted]. (Found on Bugzilla)
- [Suggestion] The ability to go back through all comments ever posted (at present, the max is your 150 most recent comments). Or an ability to hide or separate deleted comments so that the list will keep expanding. (Found on Bugzilla)
Am I missing anything?
Compilations/Notes
Not implemented :
On http://www.dreamwidth.org/editjournal :
On http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/recent_comments :
Am I missing anything?
Re: Compilations/Notes
The orphaning option still sounds good to me, especially in cases of stalking or bullying.
Being able to opt-out certain journals and communities seems like it would be really, really difficult to implement in an effective way, because there would be so many places you'd have to keep track of; I could maybe see a tickybox for "leave comments and posts only on journals I trust and communities I'm a member of" but there would still be a risk of content being lost that you didn't want lost, if there was a journal or community you didn't realize you'd never joined.
...I wouldn't object too strongly to a journal-by-journal or community-by-community option to "delete all my content in this community," though. That way, if there was a person you no longer trusted or community you were locked out of, you could remove yourself just from there, but you'd have to think it through in a case-by-case basis.
I like the idea of having plenty of control over your comments, I just think about the people I had great conversations in my journal with three or four years ago, that I still value, but who have moved on, who probably wouldn't even think about my journal if they were considering a delete. (Some of them have deleted their journal, in fact, just because they aren't interested in LJ any more, and never thought about it as something archival, but their comments are still important to my journal, which I do consider an archive.)
What would you think of having the full-mass-delete option being something only the Abuse team can do, by request, so in the event of serious stalking or bullying issues it can be done, but it won't get done casually?
no subject
Something like this might be handy from the profile of such a community? Most of the time, there are really specific places where I wouldn't want my content to remain. So I would definitely go for something like this. It's much more limited in scope, but combined with an effective way to search out all comments / all entries site wide, I would support it.
Not sure how viable that would be considering manpower and resources. Putting in requests to do it that way would be similar to the people asking for a mass delete in Support now. I'm assuming that to just delete all content associated with an ID is an easier task. Maybe someone with more coding experience can answer that.
Re: Compilations/Notes
I like this idea.