I am fine with a site setting here of:
skip_auto_delete_reply_likes (default 5)
It can be somewhat surprising, so I would like us to have this number communicated to admins when they set the timer. Maybe we wait on the redesign of topic timers UI @martin is working on to add this in?
Note, this doe not solve @dfabulich problem, and to be honest I can not think of a clean workaround for manually protecting, here are some things I thought about
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skip_auto_delete_reply_on_staff_like(default false) - similar to how we feature comments on BBS using staff likes -
Automatically skip on “post notice” … adds noise
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Always skip when staff posts, would have to be a setting
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Something else … too messy imo.