Tris20 proposes implementing post-timer functionality to automatically delete or manage specific types of posts. The motivation behind this request is to address brief, notification-focused replies that don’t contribute to long-term discussions, such as “@username you might find this useful.” These posts are seen as useful in the short term for sending notifications, but become useless in the long term.
To address this issue, Tris20 suggests introducing a post-timer feature, allowing moderators to set specific posts for deletion after a certain period, such as a week. This would maintain the value of sending notifications while preserving the quality of posts on the platform. Additionally, auto-archive or auto-unlisting features could be considered as useful alternatives.
This proposal differs from using topic timers and deleting replies, as many replies are valuable and the goal is to target specific, low-value posts. Similar discussions on auto-deleting posts can be found in this and this topics.
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.
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
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.