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

[ex_uniquewo]

Yes, please.

[charliemc]

+1

There's good reason to believe that just deleting a journal isn't the most secure thing a person can do, frankly.

I've no clue what it would take to implement this, though. It wouldn't be at the top of my personal list of 'LJ wants' -- but I think it's a great concept, even so.

[nakeisha]

A good idea.

[mooism]

If this is accepted, then it MUST be made possible to undo the deletions for some time afterwards. When an lj account is deleted it can be undone at any time during the next 30 days (have I remembered that right?); if lj entries are mass deleted like this, it should be made possible to undelete them during the next 30 days also.

[pinterface]

No, -1, forget this

[midnightmadness]

Will the implementation of this also come with the feature for everyone to laugh and make fun of every person that says/asks "omg, I deleted all of my entries in a drama filled drunken bout of interpersonal idiocy last night - how do I get them all back!?!?" Because if it does, I'm all in then.

Sorry, the people most likely to use the delete everything feature are the same type of flakes that randomly delete their journal every 3rd Tuesday because they're getting all over the top emo about something stupid like their best friend's sister making fun of the color of their cat's collar, and then they undelete two days later after seeing how many of their friends REALLY cared enough to call or email to find out why the poor little snowflake is upset.

How about this - WHY do YOU want/need the feature. In your whole long winded diatribe about this, I don't see any compelling argument about just WHY this feature is needed. Surprise me, give me a genuine reason this should be implemented.

[ex_uniquewo]

Not the OP but I want to be able to easily delete all my entries when deleting an account. And I don't mean randomly deleting. :) I mean deleting it in a why-do-I-have-to-wait-60-days-for-it-to-be-purged way.
Or I want to be able to delete all my entries from a certain year because time has gone by and I I don't feel they're me anymore. I know I can turn them private but I'd rather throw out my old clothes than put them in boxes; or burn old journals rather than keep them to remember how silly I was back then. ;).

[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

[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