garbage identification, intervention by owner of content, export, deletion

Posted by Graham Perrin on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Why-are-Certain-Forums-and-Topics-suddenly-scheduled-for-deletion-tp4131246p4147621.html

Franklin Schmidt <Nabble> wrote

Thanks for the feedback.  If 7 days is too short, what do you recommend?  

At least a month; see <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp4131246p4131518.html> for details.

Realistically, you'll have some content owners who don't act in response to all three notices (one month, one week, one day) then eventually complain that they can't find their content. I have seen people behave in this way countless times ;) In such situations you can place the blame with the user, true, but that doesn't help the situation — and like it or not, users do not learn from such mistakes — all in all, it creates an air of negativity and dissatisfaction.

People are generally passive, so if we wait for people to expressly agree before deleting stuff, we will never delete anything.

How much do you expect to save by deletion?

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

We can export to XML right now, but this isn't easily imported by other forum software. We may work on this in the future.

Suggestions

Don't allow the system to delete content unless the owner expressly OK's the deletion.

Find a complementary way of drawing attention to potential garbage. Maybe a banner that appears once per day, or once per browsing session, until the owner says 'delete' or 'do not delete' at each item.

If you must delete content without the intervention of the owner, then export it to XML and e-mail it to the owner.

Thanks for consideration!
Graham