Delete all journal entries

[presser_kun]

Title
Delete all journal entries

Short, concise description of the idea
Delete all journal entries at once.

Full description of the ideaDeleting journal entries one at a time is unnecessarily tedious and painstaking work

Comments

[midnightmadness]

MHO, this justification doesn't make very much sense. either it means "deleting" to you, or it means "recycle bin" or "save in a box for later", as it were. If it really means deleting to you, what's the actual difference between deleting all the entires then deleting the journal, or just deleting the journal? MHO, just about any way you answer this it just comes back to the "I'm a flake that may change my mind" mantra and that includes things like "I don't feel that way anymore."

It's great if you went through a bad spell or did drugs or alcohol or had a bad relationship and want to put that all behind you, but a mass deletion tool isn't going to change who you were or be able to Eternal Sunshine cherry pick the bad times out - suck it up and go back and remove/privatize them individually, I say (and before you try to toss that notion back at me - yes, I have already had to even do that myself to remove work sensitive stuff from my journal's past). Part of the problem is that LJ has left themselves open by offering such a huge window for people to change their minds and undelete. They already cater to the precious snowflake sect way too much, and nobody learns anything about the real world situation of actually committing to judgment calls and learning from mistakes when they're wrong. This suggestion just wants to white wash everything - you want to delete the journal, you can already do that so just delete it and move on... anything else, and you're a "special snowflake", or just outright lazy at the very least.

Sorry if that's rough or harsh, but that's my opinion on this. No to the suggestion.

[ex_uniquewo]

If it really means deleting to you, what's the actual difference between deleting all the entires then deleting the journal, or just deleting the journal?

Security reasons? When I delete an account I like to remove all the information tied to the account. In this case it also includes entries.

but a mass deletion tool isn't going to change who you were or be able to Eternal Sunshine cherry pick the bad times out - suck it up and go back and remove/privatize them individually

I never said it would. Bad times? Suck it up? *snorts* Stop the drama. I'm not even talking about that. I don't understand why you wouldn't want a mass delete tool when you tell me to remove all my entries individually. It doesn't make any sense to me.

you want to delete the journal, you can already do that so just delete it and move on... anything else, and you're a "special snowflake", or just outright lazy at the very least.

Uh? So I'm lazy because I don't want to remove them one by one? Is the fact that it would take me a long time supposed to mean something? Is this supposed to be some kind of special moment when I reflect on who I was and how much I've changed or haven't. Because that is ridiculous, imo. You're making this far more meaningful than it is.

[mordyn4]

XD

ilu (In fact, I don't think I thanked you for the usericon swap out code. It's lovely.)

Oh rats, I traded out my special snowflake icon for something else.

You know LJ Migrate, which runs on Python, has a nuke all feature. Which is lucky, because sometimes you migrate a comm to InsaneJournal, find out that the posts can't be backdated and end up in the order of last edited and have to delete the whole comm because the round robin storytelling format is dependent on successive posting. Not that I'd know ANYTHING about that. :P

Anyway, it's either ask squeaky to purge it, change all 400 dates by hand, lose the comm name so that no one can ever find it, or nuke all.

In sum! Delete all is not just for special snowflakes. 8-|

+1

[azurelunatic]

Hi! Moderator hat on!

[azurelunatic]

Moderator note: let us please keep this discussion to the suggestion itself, and not go into personal judgment of those suggesting or supporting it. That way lies flamewars.

[midnightmadness]

MHO, the points I've brought up here are very valid to the practicality of the suggestion and people likely to use the feature. No direct criticism of judgment of any single user was intended, however, I still do stand by my assessment that the suggested feature is at the very least impractical due to the type of user that I believe is most likely to utilize it. If anyone takes offense at that notion, they're free to bring up counterpoints to it.