Functionality to remove unneccesary posts from topics

Continuing the discussion from Multisite configuration with Docker:

I love Discourse and first want to just say ‘thanks’ to you guys for your work on an excellent application.

But…

Gahh, I hate having to say that…but, I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed when I read some Discourse threads - for example the one I’ve linked to above (multisite configuration).

Over time these threads get cluttered. For example, with the thread I added below:

I’m wondering how you guys envision folks consuming this post in the best way possible currently…and if you have any ideas for how to make it more easily consumed in the future?

I’d suggest that a “cleaning” mechanism of some sort would be quite handy. For example, the above thread I made is old news. It really is pretty useless - @riking made the necessary edit - the related posts are now “useless.”

A cleaning mechanism might work something like this (and I’m just spitballing here trying to be helpful :))

  • One could select a thread of posts and “collapse” them. They would remain part of the same thread, in the same location, but individuals would click on them collapsed version to expand and see the full thread. This way the info. is still accessible, but isn’t cluttering up what’s really important.
  • One could have a “break into new topic” option that would pull off this specific sub-thread into a new topic…err, it should probably be an old topic, otherwise everyone would see this useless info. as unread when they next visited the site.
  • The moderator could just delete the clutter.
  • Users could be responsible for deleting their own clutter.

Dave

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Pretty much all the above exists, its just a question of discipline applying the existing tools.

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サムが言ったように、機能の多くはすでに存在します。しかし、それは部分的に条件付けであり、物事を容易にする機能も公開していると思います。

例えば、かなり新しいサイトの設定では、投稿の左下隅に数字付きの矢印が表示されます。クリックすると、最初にクリックした投稿に関連するもの以外はすべて非表示になります。

これはメンバーだけでなく、トピックを分割したいモデレーターチームにとっても便利です。ただし、回答者が投稿の返信ボタンではなく、一番下の返信ボタンを使用した場合は、後で投稿を挿入するオプションが必要になるかもしれません。