The discussion revolves around the ability to prevent specific posts from being deleted when a timer-based auto-delete feature is enabled. one1 asks if selected posts can be protected from deletion, noting that while there’s a Skip auto delete reply likes option, it doesn’t meet their needs. Moin shares a screenshot of this feature, which helps preserve replies with high engagement. one1 confirms this isn’t suitable for their use case, as they want to preserve important informational content, not just popular replies. putty asks for clarification on the nature of the posts to be preserved, and one1 explains they are more important than general discussion. tobiaseigen acknowledges that while pinning posts to prevent deletion isn’t currently possible, it could be a valuable feature and suggests opening a feature request in #feature for community discussion.
If I have, say, a documentation post with a timer to remove all replies after x days, is it possible to prevent selected posts from being deleted? I don’t see the option, but maybe it’s called something I’m not expecting.
In the case I have now, I simply cut and pasted the material into the original post.
Sorry if this has been asked before. It feels familiar but searching turned up nothing.
Ah, that’s what I had seen before but didn’t remember exactly what it was.
No, that wouldn’t help in my case, but maybe that’s all there is.
Thank you!
Out of curiosity what is the nature of the posts that you would want to preserve?
Information that is related to the main post and is more important than the general back and forth people might comment. I guess I could just manually delete the other posts, but it would be much better to be able to pin the important ones.
It isn’t currently possible to “pin” replies to have them not be deleted, but I can see that might be a useful feature request. Feel free to start a topic in Contribute > Feature to ask for it so it can be voted on and discussed.
