deleting posts

[eyelid]

Title
deleting posts

Short, concise description of the idea
It would be nice if we could delete posts we'd made in communities even if we have been banned from those communities.

Full description of the idea
See above. I'm mostly just wanting to clean up after youthful peccadillos ;)
An ordered list of benefits

• I think it helps ensure privacy, and

Comments

[gerg]

You can already do this if you know the ID # of the post (the part of the URL after http://community.livejournal.com/examplecomm/ -- for this post it would be 960358.)

Of course, finding the ID # of a post that you can't see any more can be difficult (but if you have a comment notification, you can find it there.)

Once you have this, it's possible to construct a URL that will let you delete the post even if you can't see it anymore. It would be like: http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml?journal=suggestions&itemid=960358. From there, you can click the "Delete Entry" button to make it go away. As far as I know, this works even if you're banned from the community or the community is members only and you're no longer a member.

I agree that there should be an easier way to do this, though!

[eyelid]

thanks for the tips :) I'll have to try that.

I do think there should be an easier way/a way to access "invisible" posts, though.

[foxfirefey]

Do you have the number of the entry? Because I think you can, ie:

http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml?journal=foxfirefey&itemid=264843

Try putting the community you posted to and the number of the entry into that link.

[mordyn4]

Agreed.

[turlough]

+1

[charliemc]

I guess this takes us to the argument of whether comments belong to the user posting them or to the community they've been posted to.

I'm always surprised when a comment 'goes away' suddenly at a community. As a community moderator for several communities, I find it sad when comments disappear...

Just my two cents worth...

[scien]

I think LJ's firmly come down on the side of belongs to the poster.

[charliemc]

Yeah, yeah, I totally get that...

There are just times when I hate to see a comment go, is all...

[azurelunatic]

LJ has consistently come down on the side of the comment being deletable by the person who posted it; I believe whole posts get the same thing.

[azurelunatic]

There's a bug open for deleting entries: LJSV-140

Marking this as migrated.

[eyelid]

not quite sure what this means...?

[azurelunatic]

It's on the developers' to-do list, although it's anyone's guess when they'll do it given that there's so much on it already. The tracking number is only of use to people with access to that system, which means developers, other employees, and senior volunteers.