The discussion revolves around removing post history to conserve disk space. bek initiated the conversation, seeking a way to delete post revisions. jomaxro clarified that hiding revisions doesn’t address disk usage. bek emphasized the need for a feature to remove revisions, which isn’t currently available.
The conversation then shifted to disabling the public’s ability to view revisions. John_Smith3 asked about a setting to turn off the revision feature, which featheredtoast and haydenjames helped to resolve.
Canapin noted that disk usage from post revisions is negligible. The topic then diverged into a discussion about the value of old threads and the potential for automatic deletion. haydenjames suggested that instead of automatic deletion, a plugin or setting could be created to manage revisions. Jonathan5 shared a link to a plugin that could be modified to achieve this goal.
The conversation concluded with no direct solution to removing post history but highlighted potential workarounds and future feature possibilities.
Hi there!
I just want to know how can I remove post history? For example my post have 6 revision. But I want to remove 5 of them. They waste my disk usage. OK, I know maybe it is not too much. But if you think about total 10k post with 6 revision that makes 60k. Depends to your editing, it could be waste too much disk for sure. Actually it is not important either it waste too much disk or not. We should be able to delete post revisions anyway in my opinion.
Thoughts?
It is possible to hide revisions, look for the trash icon on the edit history dialog.
I don’t believe that is that @bek is asking. He mentioned disk usage, hiding a revision doesn’t do that, it just removes it from the client view for non-staff users.
That being said, I don’t believe this would be possible without accessing the database.
Yes, you right. I don’t talking about hiding revisions, I want to remove them. Who actually need a dozen of revision all the time? Don’t you think this is waste of resources @codinghorror ?
Anyway, as I said before take it waste or not, we should be able to remove these revisions… If there is no feature request like this, let me make one here 
(Forgive me if I say something rude, I’m not native speaker)
也对这个感兴趣……
我希望有一个设置可以禁用公众查看修订版本的功能，也就是禁用那个铅笔图标……
是否有设置可以关闭查看历史修订版本的功能？
Mahalo！
您正在寻找对公众可见的编辑历史设置。禁用该设置将隐藏它。
谢谢，问题解决了！
可惜它没有把铅笔图标也去掉，但你说得对，它确实禁用了点击和查看的功能。
Mahalo！
@John_Smith3
您可以通过点击铅笔图标，然后逐一隐藏所有修订版本来将铅笔隐藏起来，但工作人员除外：
还需要将“对公众可见的编辑历史记录”设置也进行设置。
这个问题从未得到答复，但与帖子修订相关的磁盘或其他资源使用量可以忽略不计。
在快速发展的操作系统生态系统中，回应一篇 3 年前的帖子很少有用。
而且这也是自动三年晋升……可能不是个好主意的原因之一？
如果有人有足够强大的工具想把它移到别处并关闭这个话题，我完全没问题（而且我知道你们不需要我的许可 
这只是礼貌地告诉版主我们可能离题了）。
也许在没有回复的情况下自动删除帖子 x 年😂 这仍然是我一直不同意的一点。
总的来说，在网络论坛的使用中，我多年来从非常古老的帖子（以及非常古老的博客文章）中找到了许多解决方案，但也在那些帖子中发现了许多无用的臃肿和死胡同……用户和版主抱怨顶帖和/或不使用搜索，而不是保持帖子的质量或将其导向正题。
我们应该欢迎讨论，如果帖子不相关，它自然会湮没。
哎呀，编辑：
关于原始问题，对于任何通过搜索来到此帖的人：也许有，或者可能有一个插件来处理这个问题。（只保留最后 x 个修订版本）或者在管理面板中有一个官方设置来只保留最多 # 个修订版本。或者，删除 x 天前的修订版本。
如果此功能很重要，将来可能会实现。我们拭目以待。
另请参阅：
以防将来有人有同样的问题并找到这个话题。
只是为了重新挖掘这个话题，这是可能的：Automatically delete topics in a category if no reply within set period - #2 by RGJ 