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

[aveleh]

I'd like to see this as part of the Edit Journal Privacy page (Mass Security edit page). But only allow private entries to be mass deleted. So that most users will first have to edit from Public/Friends to Private, and then delete.

(Un)fortunately, that would mean that custom group security editing would need to be implemented first, too.

With third party tools, I think the hacking issue is less important than ensuring that users *really* mean it. Although a link on the page explaining how to download your entries first would be <3

[pauamma]

If it's done at all (I'm dubious about this idea), I'd like it done in essentially the way aveleh described.

[ex_uniquewo]

Good thinking.

[ccnuggie]

Maybe I missed it, but what is wrong with: http://www.livejournal.com/accountstatus.bml ?

[azurelunatic]

Keeping the username, hosing the content.

[opal1159]

Not a comment on the actual suggestion but about:

Assume that the account holder /is/ online and sees his journal entries being deleted. What then? Is the action required to stop this clear to LJ members? I don't think it is. For my own part, I wouldn't have any idea of what to do. I'd search (frantically) for help while my entries were continuing to vanish.

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/logout.bml to expire all sessions (to log out the hacker), change your password ASAP, hope that your email account and your internet connection aren't also compromised, and make a backup of any entries that are still there that you really wanted to keep.

Not exactly a common scenario, as you mention, but now you know!

Please Approve!

[tiny_xo_2008]

I wish they would approve this. I hate going from entry to entry to delete multiple ones.

[kou]

+1

[azurelunatic]

I would say that upon password reset, a deletion should be hung, but allow the user to know that it was requested, and to restart if still desired. Or at least warn the user that prior to the password reset, it was requested.