Keep deleted entries.

[motoxtop]

Title
Keep deleted entries.

Short, concise description of the idea
Keep "deleted" entries in the system so that they may be reviewed at a later date.

Full description of the ideaAs a community moderator, I'd like to be able to see entries that a member (or another moderator) has deleted. Instead of completely removing them, they'd be flagged as "

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Similar suggestion intended for personal journals: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/890238.html

[polyfrog]

No.
One of the basic underlying principles of LJ from the very beginning is that an author retains control of the things she writes. Always. Including the power to delete them. Yes, this leads to a little abuse sometimes. But that does not make it a good idea to dilute that control.

[just_chiara]

+1 to this comment.

And as for personal journals, I don't want to first delete-but-not-really my entries, and then really-delete than. It takes more time. If I just don't want other people to read that entry anymore, I'll set its security to private.

[justhuman]

+1 just what I was thinking

[motoxtop]

Well, here's the issue... We have a community. If we have to delete a post for whatever reason, we have to copy the post to our mods community, along with all the comments to the post, and then remove the post from the community so that we have a copy of it/know what was said and by whom. Also, sometimes a member gets to their post/deletes it before we have a chance to see it and we still get complaints about the post but we can't respond because we don't have the post anymore.

In the same regard, we can't edit posts if they violate a formatting rule for our community, so we have to delete them. If LJ automatically kept the post, and the poster wanted to repost without the formatting, we could just send them a copy of their post so they could reformat it. As it is, we're having to grab the copy from the mod community and send that to them.

[februaryfour]

I sort of like this idea in a moderator sort of way, but I can see how as the author of a post I'd want to be in full control of my own posts. This would be really difficult to deal with either way.

[mlady_rebecca]

I like this idea with respect to communities.

I'm not sure what use it would be to personal journals. I don't feel the need for a recycle bin behavior.

[boredinsomniac]

Thanks for your suggestion! This suggestion will not be considered for development at this time.