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.
J’ai aussi désespérément besoin de cette fonction 
Oui. Je pense que les options pourraient être :
Aussi : si cela reçoit une attention un jour, il me semble logique d’ajouter “Archiver” en même temps.
J’aimerais ajouter notre voix à cette demande. Nous aimerions avoir un paramètre pour chaque catégorie où les administrateurs peuvent (facultativement) définir un minuteur de suppression automatique par défaut pour tous les messages de cette catégorie.
Dans notre cas, nous avons une catégorie d’annonces classées et j’aimerais la maintenir propre en supprimant automatiquement toutes les annonces (sujets) plus anciennes que N jours.
Merci.
J’aimerais également avoir cette fonctionnalité.
J’aimerais également que cela soit une fonctionnalité. Mon forum dispose d’une base de connaissances et actuellement, le personnel doit ajouter manuellement des minuteurs de suppression de messages aux publications créées par nos utilisateurs.
Salut, cette demande de fonctionnalité serait vraiment formidable pour mon cas d’utilisation, d’autres ont mentionné son importance. Est-il prévu de l’implémenter ? Merci.
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Merci d’avoir partagé ce plugin.
Cela pourrait être un pas en avant.
J’ai suggéré au développeur d’utiliser ce plugin comme base pour un nouveau plugin afin de supprimer réellement les sujets plus anciens que N jours.
Croisons les doigts…
