I wish they weren't deleted.
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So many deletions, so little time....
m15o says bulk deletion is on his list (to be implemented in M.p). Now, the drunken, late night slurs of wayward yammering with friends, old and new, can be laid to rest en masse - paving for new wordsmithing in the present moment, times to come.
It will be a glorious time! :-)
yes, implementing a simultaneous mentionlog would be helpful, too. So the exchanges don't go away, just the "Post Title [deleted]" OP entries do.
What if an optional timer could be associated with posts/replies by an author thereof? There'd be a field labeled something like "Lifetime" next to a post/reply textarea. No input would be interpreted as "indefinitely". But a non-negative numeric value would be interpreted as "number of days until auto-deletion". That number could floating point to express a "portion of a day" value (so that 0.3 would mean "3/10ths of a day"). So something in the Pub bowels would be periodically comparing a post/reply timedate stamp with "now", and deleting posts/replies whose "lifetime" has expired.
That way, an author can be freed of the work it takes to delete posts, as well as of the guilt of being the one that creates post/reply link references. All posts/replies would be displayed with a "remaining lifetime" value, which would help guide people to either do the work to blockquote to reference, or not bother referencing such a post/reply, knowing there will eventually be a "hole" where there was once a post/reply
Maybe there's a facility in the account section that could set the lifetime of all or a subset of posts/replies to a value, drastically simplifying mass deletion? No need to endure lots of "Are you sure?" dialogs during a mass deletion session.
Note that I've not thought this all the way through... just pondering screenward....
..or a delete button :)
I like the hole concept.
I'd like old comments/exchanges to (after a time in their respective Reply Fields (under a post) to eventually disappear, only to be found out of order, out of context in a/the "Abyss". A link at the bottom of the page where comments and exchanges are in obscured order. Just heavy babbling about a long lost entry, the original post having been deleted X # of days/weeks before.
I like the hole concept.
You posting from Malibu these days or *what*?!!?! :-)
I got Celebrity Skin as a gift for my 14 birthday. Guilty pleasure for a week. No thank you now
I miss those days/times.
I'm preoccupied with early 90s headset these days.ostly bc it was last time air was clean/fresh around my residence, as it is here.
So odd one of distant memories (sort of long lost perceptions) return fairly often. Not to be/think child-like, just a "this is how I experience the world when I live in abundant fresh air" type of thing. Growing up rural was everything, STL County shat all over that town. Now I am back to where I feel like I am almost camping daily, but at my house.