This may be rehashing ground that's already been debated out on another suggestion, but since suspension itself is unsuitable and unavailable for situations like this, I wonder if it would be at all feasible to make a user-triggered mode that uses roughly the same or a similar mechanism to suspension. I might even go so far as to wonder whether the journal-deletion workflow could/should be changed (potentially dangerous, I think) to allow editing of existing entries in the first ... 72 hours? day? week? two weeks? (Basically, I don't want someone to delete their journal for the purpose of editing it, then forget it is deleted, and wake up the next day to find it gone.)
A journal using a user-initiated method of journal hiding using a mechanism similar to suspension would not be able to comment, should not be able to create new entries anywhere, but should be able to view and delete existing entries, *possibly* even edit existing entries in their own journal only. (Editing community entries sounds like a problem for the administrators.) If it existed, it ought to display a hiatus message like the deletion messages. Looking to the future, it would not be a good thing to have a gazillion hiatused journals sticking around getting in indices and taking up disk space, and taking up namespace. So if this happens, it might be sensible to have it be a "long delete" acknowledged from the start, so no one is surprised except that fraction of people who manage to be surprised no matter how well something is labeled and explained. Using the inevitable Christine Scenario -- suppose someone went off into the Peace Corps or something for 23+ months (this comes up with regularity in LJ feature discussions involving abandoned journals, because there is a much-beloved old-school LJ volunteer who did just that) -- as a model, with long-term absences in mind -- maybe hold in hiatus for 4 years and 11 months, have it go to deletion in the 12th month of the 4th year?
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A journal using a user-initiated method of journal hiding using a mechanism similar to suspension would not be able to comment, should not be able to create new entries anywhere, but should be able to view and delete existing entries, *possibly* even edit existing entries in their own journal only. (Editing community entries sounds like a problem for the administrators.) If it existed, it ought to display a hiatus message like the deletion messages. Looking to the future, it would not be a good thing to have a gazillion hiatused journals sticking around getting in indices and taking up disk space, and taking up namespace. So if this happens, it might be sensible to have it be a "long delete" acknowledged from the start, so no one is surprised except that fraction of people who manage to be surprised no matter how well something is labeled and explained. Using the inevitable Christine Scenario -- suppose someone went off into the Peace Corps or something for 23+ months (this comes up with regularity in LJ feature discussions involving abandoned journals, because there is a much-beloved old-school LJ volunteer who did just that) -- as a model, with long-term absences in mind -- maybe hold in hiatus for 4 years and 11 months, have it go to deletion in the 12th month of the 4th year?