this is a feature request to make it possible to have a category where users are free to discuss without any concern.
two use cases I can think of:
for newbies who may be afraid to participate, one can config a category whose topics are temporary and is more like a test environment (like try.discourse.com).
for countries with lots of censorship (less freedom of words), it’d be much safer for users to discuss temporarily rather than permanent.
I raised this here:
The general consensus now is that we want to build something like this. I am going to slot it to next release.
thanks but I guess the functionality of these two features are opposite to each other. as you mentioned in the linked topic, the “auto-delete reply” feature is best for keeping well-documented topics, while the “auto-delete topic” feature is ideal for temporary discussions.
isn’t it possible to have both features?
yes of course, then is it possible to add a setting to the categories as “auto-delete topics in this category after … minutes”, just like “auto-close” setting? I’m looking for some way to set a temporary discussion category, and it’d be hard and boring if admins need to set the topics of a category for auto-deletion by hand.
Like @jessicat and @Pad_Pors, I’m interested in such a category-wide setting that automatically deletes topics within a category. I can see that stickies should be preserved with such a function. Maybe optional, topics with many bookmarks or likes could be kept, too, although I’m not interested in that. Do I overlook other topics that should not be deleted?
I figured with auto close and Automatically delete replies after N days most of the similar code should already be there and would just have to be adapted and put into a plugin. But the pull-request is overwhelming me.
Are there or have there already been further steps in this direction? Does the team or the community have any further interest in this?
I think this would be very useful as well.
We have a category where each post is a wiki (for our internal documentation). We use replies to discuss change-requests and these are deleted after 30 days.
We can set up auto wiki on a category level, but it would be really great if we can automatically add a topic timer (auto delete replies after X days) to each new topic in the category. Right now we have to do it manually for each topic which is a lot of extra clicks.
I came here to see if this was possible/request the feature. It would be really useful. Our use-case is a student-support forum where we’d like questions to time out after a specific period of time to avoid cluttering the category with prosaic queries/noise. We’d like to be able to manually preserve some topics where they have lasting relevance, but this would not be the default
Relatedly, it would be cool to have an admin/moderator feature where topics that are about to be deleted can be reviewed before they go. If a moderator could subscribe to a weekly digest of to-be-deletd topics and replies that would be even better.
También necesito desesperadamente esta función 
Sí. Creo que las opciones podrían ser:
Además: si esto recibe atención en algún momento, me parece lógico añadir “Archivar” al mismo tiempo.
Me gustaría añadir nuestra voz a esta solicitud. Nos gustaría tener una configuración para cada categoría donde los administradores puedan (opcionalmente) establecer un temporizador de eliminación automática de temas predeterminado para todas las publicaciones de esa categoría.
En nuestro caso, tenemos una categoría de Anuncios Clasificados y me gustaría mantenerla ordenada eliminando automáticamente todos los anuncios (temas) de más de N días.
Gracias.
Me gustaría tener esta funcionalidad también.
También me gustaría tener esto como una característica, mi foro tiene una base de conocimientos y actualmente el personal tiene que añadir manualmente temporizadores de temas que eliminan respuestas a cada publicación que crean nuestros usuarios.
Hola, esta solicitud de función sería genial para mi caso de uso, otros han mencionado su importancia. ¿Hay algún plan para implementarla? Gracias.
Se dividieron 3 publicaciones en un nuevo tema: Plugin para introducir la eliminación automática como opción a nivel de categoría
Gracias por compartir este plugin.
Este puede ser un paso adelante.
Le sugerí al desarrollador que tal vez usara ese plugin como base para un nuevo plugin para eliminar realmente los temas que tienen más de N días.
Crucemos los dedos…
