[SUGGESTION] Allow deletion of posts and comments with no replies
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Hi, Scott!
You mean ability to delete author's posts and comments?
With personal posts - may be ability with hide it, not delete.
With comments I would add ability to edit comment in 15 minutes after publishing. Makes sense?
I mean the ability to delete posts and comments you made, not posts by anyone. This is very typical from the early versions of phpBB and other forum software to modern social apps like Facebook and Twitter.
As for editing comments, we can already edit at any time, right? Please don't restrict it to 15 minutes.
I agree with Scott - Facebook practice that you could delete your post (including all comments below it) or entire comments thread under your comment - is good one. And sometimes it allows to reduce noise ratio significantly.
Your own post or comment is yours - you should be able to change your mind and edit or delete it easily. Forum software just should be able to handle it gracefully and transparently (i.e. marking properly that this post or comments has been edited at XXX UTC)
I think you should not be able to delete comment or post. And you should have some time to edit comment (~10 minutes) after it was made.
What is the reason for deleting posts or comments?
Let' start from the fact: HabraHabr practice to limit ability to edit comment to post with a couple of weeks, and edit your comment with a couple of minutes is insane. Nobody does it and it's very inconvenient.
It might make sense for high-traffic community as HabrHabr but will not make any sense here:
- I want to be able to edit my comment while topic is vibile. At any time [though keeping editing history available, as Facebook does is a good practice];
- And I want to be able to post new comments to any old post without any restriction.
Who knows how life will go and how old idea might become relevant in a couple of years after?
«And I want to be able to post new comments to any old post without any restriction.» I agree with this.
«I want to be able to edit my comment while topic is visible. At any time.» Why? If something is changed, so that comment is no longer relevant, you can post a new comment. If you made mistkae during posting -- you have 10 minutes to fix it.
What is the reason for not allowing it?
Reasons for allowing editing at any time:
- I discover after the timeout period that I posted personally identifiable information.
- I post a confusing question and through a couple comments over a span of days realize the error. I change the original post so that future readers don't experience the confusion.
- It's my content and I should be able to change it without a reason.
Reasons for allowing deletion of own posts:
- I post a thread asking a question and immediately realize I just had a typo. There is absolutely no need for the post to exist.
- I post in the wrong group/community.
- It's my content and I should be able to delete it without reason*
Reasons for allowing deletion of own comments:
- Someone asks a question and I post a comment that I later realize is stupid and embarrasing. I could edit it, but why waste the space?
- I post a comment on the wrong topic (it happens)
- It's my content and I should be able to edit it without reason.
*Please note in my original post I suggested that we could only delete posts we made that don't have any responses. If someone else has taken the time to address my topic I have no right to delete their thoughts.
+1
+1
I think that members should own their own content and be able to edit or delete it (just like Facebook)
Ben, suppose your above comment would be only +1. Or "+1 Yes, I support this because it is great". And then owner of post or comment changes the post or comment above to totally different suggestion. How about your +1 and support in this case?
It's a good point Evgeny, however I would still think that the benefit of letting people clarify their question or response outweighs the possibility of someone changing the content completely.
Also, once there is a proper up-vote and down-vote in place, people won't have to add "+1" comments anymore :)
-1
(just kidding)
This is a good point, but I think we all agree that StackOverflow is the crème de la crème of Question and Answer communities and they allow editing even though their entire site is based on up and downvotes.
+1, no kidding ;)