Daily Tildes discussion - more details about handling removed posts

Deimos
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:22:29 +0000

Sorry, I've been busy with open-source-related things and have been bad about the daily discussions for the last couple of days (late today, and completely forgot about doing one yesterday).

Today I want to ask for opinions about some specific details of how removed posts should be handled. To be clear, this is related to posts that are removed manually by me (and maybe someday by other users, in response to reports, etc.). This is not related to posts that have been deleted by their author.

Specifically, I'd like to answer these questions:

1. Should the author of a removed post always know that it's been removed?

2. When informing the author that a post was removed, should it be a "passive" notification (like an indicator on the comment noting that it's been removed), or should they get an actual separate notification telling them? The difference is mostly that "passive" ones may never be seen if the author doesn't look back at the comment after it's been removed.

3. Should the removed comments/topic still be visible on the user's profile page, when other users look at it? That is, is the comment/topic only removed its "context" but still visible from their profile, or is it completely removed and no longer visible anywhere?

Please let me know what you think for those specific questions, as well as any other suggestions or concerns you have about removed posts in general.

Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~tildes.official/3lf/daily_tildes_discussion_more_details_about_handling_removed_posts

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