Re: Notify contributors when orphaning occurs

Posted by Hugo <Nabble> on Mar 25, 2010; 7:34pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Notify-contributors-when-orphaning-occurs-tp4767579p4799783.html

Graham Perrin wrote

When a parent post is deleted:

* notify remaining contributors that their topic is an orphan.

Deleted posts don't remove the branch anymore. If a user deletes a post, the message text is replaced by "CONTENTS DELETED..." and the thread structure stays intact. So this specific alert doesn't make sense.

Graham Perrin wrote

When a post is removed from a topic or forum:

* notify the author of that post, and authors of replies.

If the post is orphan, it might have been removed by the garbage collector that deleted the parent and not by a specific Nabble user. I remember you recently posted about some of your nodes being deleted and this might have caused the problem. Do you confirm? Or is the parent still available somewhere?

Posts can only be manually removed by the forum owner or authors of anscestor nodes. The primary intention is to get rid of spam and I don't think spammers should be notified in such cases. So this notification shouldn't be for everyone. In any case, removed posts would be caught by the garbage collector and the author would receive an email. So the only difference is that it would be delayed and you wouldn't know who removed it.