# Temporary posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-posts/214602>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-posts/214602 "2022-01-12T02:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon40545810](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@anon40545810](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon40545810)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/temporary-posts/214602/4 "2022-01-25T05:52:37Z")

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I hope to clarify a few more points that I hadn’t thought about at the beginning when writing this feature. I thought of other points of view that may be against or in favor of the idea I had earlier.

1. An interesting case of having temporary posts would be this:  
Let’s say you use a system like Discourse to manage customers within your company. For example, clarifying doubts about your product with these customers.
  - Let’s say the conversation for each client is very specific and confidential. One way to do this would be to create temporary posts. When the conversation ends, the post is deleted immediately or for a time that you or the customer must set, as the conversation is confidential. When we say that the conversation is confidential, we can be talking about commercial proposals, for example: - This fact happens a lot in brand exclusivity contracts, where artists cannot say which brands they are sponsored.
  - Therefore, I believe that the resource “temporary post” can somehow contribute to the preservation of a certain reliability.

2. Another interesting case I reported about temporary posts would be to give users the possibility to control their posts. I had mentioned this fact related to GDPR, which says that data should be stored for a shorter time. In addition, I mentioned possible social networks that implement this temporality feature, such as Snapchat, as well as in the case of Pastebin.
3. I believe these 2 cases are very interesting to give some validation to the central idea, which is the temporary posting.

> 1. Set a topic delete timer on the topic. Easy peasy lemon squeezy yeezy jeezy.

- This idea is very interesting. But how would I do that?

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