Deletion of content in "Gay Rollback Is Coming" - GD

[reaver]

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What's with the deletions?

[JJ1]

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What's with the deletions?

Mass-blanking ones posts after others have put in the effort to respond to them is a very rude thing to do. It is effectively like vandalizing the thread.

Now we don't know what the posts responded to if it wasn't quoted. The context is lost.

[Jim Burton]

Users are permitted to do it, though, but this does not effect direct quotes.

Personally, I would have all posts self-lock after a week. I'm not sure if there is a way of doing this.

[Scorchingwilde]

After such a thoughtful and helpful discussion I'm more concerned about the *why* behind their deletion. I hope things are well with the OP, though I agree maybe a self-locking mechanism for posts would be good for archival purposes. Concerns about privacy in case of username leaks (the only logical reason I can think of to allow mass self deletion) might be better achieved by dming an admin.

[Jim Burton]

I just set an editing and deletion limit of 5 days on all posts for regular users.

This is probably in line with what others would want, but we may change this if moderators have other ideas.