The only way to guarantee that a journal (or the contents of a journal) won't be visible to the public immediately is to delete it
A different idea.
If a journal is suspended, it's not visible to anyone, but the user can still go in and edit stuff (I believe, you can be requested to do so I think?).
If so, possible alt solution would be to allow someone in this sort of trouble to suspend their journal, and then go through and edit the problematic entries themselves? Either with or without a client depending on whether there is one.
Suspension would solve the immediate problem proposed by the OP, while still allowing removal of problematic entries. I'd suggest making sure ability to do this is strictly limited, possibly via support request only--is there an 'urgent' flag that can be set for certain types of request?
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A different idea.
If a journal is suspended, it's not visible to anyone, but the user can still go in and edit stuff (I believe, you can be requested to do so I think?).
If so, possible alt solution would be to allow someone in this sort of trouble to suspend their journal, and then go through and edit the problematic entries themselves? Either with or without a client depending on whether there is one.
Suspension would solve the immediate problem proposed by the OP, while still allowing removal of problematic entries. I'd suggest making sure ability to do this is strictly limited, possibly via support request only--is there an 'urgent' flag that can be set for certain types of request?