The problem with allowing users to remove their own
posts is, what happens if you are deleting the head of a
thread? Of course, you can always modify the message
so it doesn't say anything, but at least the order of the
thread tree is preserved. I've thought a little about this
and I haven't come up with a good solution. Anyone think of
something? (ie being able to remove only messages without
reply's)
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Crulx
crulx@iaxs.net
Being able to remove nodes which have no replies would be
sufficient for me. The problem I see this as addressing is
where a node has been accidentally created as empty - I
would hope people are less likely to reply to empty nodes.
I suppose you could permit removal of nodes with replies
if you had some policy. For example:
Re-parent all replies to a deleted node to the parent
of the deleted node. (Not much worse than people being
allowed to edit out the text of a node as far as making the
threading confusing).
If a node is deleted which has replies, change the
maintainer to Daemon/Zombie/Admin and set the text to empty