Community Management: ability to send a note when deleting an entry

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Community Management: ability to send a note when deleting an entry

Area:
Community Management

Summary:
Admins can delete any entry posted in their communities. It would be nice if they could send a note explaining why they did it should they wish to, the same way you can send one when you reject a moderated entry.

Description:
Deletions are not always caused by spam, irrelevant content or blatant disregard of the community rules. It can be the result of a honest mistake and I think having the possibility to explain or clarify something as you delete the entry could be useful. The entry could still be deleted immediately, which is useful when communication with the poster takes time or the entry contains HTML code which breaks one's reading page, and you wouldn't have to enable moderation in communities where 'problematic' entries are a rare occurrence.

Poll #8387 Community Management: ability to send a note when deleting an entry

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 69

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Should be implemented as-is.
63 (91.3%)

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

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (8.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[boundbooks]

Oh my, I wonder if I'm the reason for this suggestion. XD

Was this written after my accidental double-post in fandomcalendar? :)

[cesy]

Would this work as essentially a pre-filled PM, or in the same way moderation rejections do?

Am I right in thinking you'd get the note regardless of what PM settings you had?

[montuos]

I know nothing about community moderation/administration, but it crossed my mind that if a post is being deleted because the html is broken, it would be nice if the delete-note could include the problem entry text so the original poster could just fix it and repost, instead of having to recreate it from scratch or give it up as unrecoverable.