Problem Example
Today we had a reply like this:
@Tris20 you might find this useful
And that’s it. All of the reply.
What’s wrong with that?
- Useful in the short term
- Sends a notification
- Brings user to platform
- Useless in the long term
- Doesn’t further the discussion
- Purpose is served as soon as notification is sent
These kind of post will become a bigger and bigger problem for us as we begin to scale across the company. I’ve seen it on our un-moderated platforms and it becomes a very contagious behaviour.
Proposal
I would a Post-Timer so I can set these posts to be deleted after a week or so. This keeps the value of sending the notification, whilst retaining the quality of posts on the platform.
I can only see the auto-delete function being useful, but somewhere I saw a proposal for auto-archive. Perhaps auto-unlisting would be a good addition as well.
Why not use Topic timer and delete replies?
Many of the replies are useful. We want to target specific replies like the one in the example.