# Could Topic Timer Functionality be Extended to Posts?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-topic-timer-functionality-be-extended-to-posts/296031>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** topic-timers\
**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-topic-timer-functionality-be-extended-to-posts/296031 "2024-02-20T08:37:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-topic-timer-functionality-be-extended-to-posts/296031/1 "2024-02-20T08:37:39Z")

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### 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.

### Similar topics

> [@Is there a way to auto-delete a post?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-auto-delete-a-post/51617):
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> I don’t mean like auto-close topics, but a way as an admin or mod to make a post within a topic delete itself after a certain amount of time.

> [@How to automatically delete posts after some time?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-automatically-delete-posts-after-some-time/208806):
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> Hi, just wanted to ask how this can beh accomplished for posts ? Thanks and Greetings!

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