Hi there, I have a long-time user that is requesting temporary removal of all of their topics due to a specific personal reason. If their situation changes those topics could be restored in the future. While they are in the removed state the topics should not be publicly accessible even if somebody …

In effect that’s basically the same as shadowbanning right? :wink: [image] Discourse Shadowban Plugin warning That plugin was built in an afternoon. Expect bugs The last resort for dealing with trolls that just won’t go away https://github.com/notriddle/…

I don’t think that plugin is working at the moment but maybe someone else can confirm.

[image] rahim123: In effect that’s basically the same as shadowbanning right? :wink: Yep, and I actually forgot that plug-in exists :laughing: I haven’t had to use that kind of ban in a long time. I still have the line commented out for the plug-in on one of my instances :slight_smile:

Folks can decide if they want to put together a Contribute > Feature topic; Global Ignore is an interesting feature for vB, but it doesn’t seem like a useful tool for me per se. I run mostly small sites where we all know each other. Which got me thinking, @rahim123 , I don’t presume to understand wh…

In this case I’m going to honor the user’s request given the details of the particular situation. I proceeded with the deletion. The deleted topics will remain indefinitely in the database, correct? No automatic hard deletion? If/when needed I can access the list of deleted topics with: /filter?q…

Did you see this post? [image] Bulk deletion of topics Support Hello and welcome @SophieRice1 slight_smile You can use the bulk options from the search results to delete en masse. You can add in the advanced filters to get what you need: [Untitled] An…

Yes, thanks, I didn’t see anything about bulk un-deletion?

Yea I don’t know. Mass deleting and restoring of user posts like this isn’t a common thing that I’ve seen.

If it was just their topics, I was going to suggest bulk recategorising then into #staff, or a new category with similar restricted permissions.

Not a bad idea, except that it would lose the original categories.

Best way to temporarily remove public access to a user's topics?

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simon August 31, 2023, 2:09am 22

The original category is retained in the edit history:

So all you would have to do is click the revert button from the edit history:

Topic		Replies	Views
Setting option to make unlisted topics inaccesible to public Feature unlisting	7	827	September 8, 2023
Want to delete 'About this Topic' Product Support	8	1930	March 23, 2019
Re-purposing a Discourse installation for a yearly event Product Support	18	6176	October 30, 2017
Best practices for archiving topics Feature	30	15543	October 7, 2016
Unlist vs Archive Product Support	4	3441	October 5, 2016

Best way to temporarily remove public access to a user's topics?

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