Download Forum History or Single Topics or Chat History
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@purldator so you want to be able to download the post and all of the replies in some sort of file. Would this remove the post from the server as well? This could be done pretty easily with a plugin.
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@pitaj Thank you for the reply.
I am unsure what you mean by 'redone' but I feel this should be in core, considering the option to delete an account already exists in core. Just making things easier for the member to leave if they wish. I am not the type to 'lock' someone in.
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@purldator sorry, that was a typo. It was supposed to say remove.
I'm still not quite getting it. When a person chooses to leave, they would hit the download button, download their posts and stuff, and then all of the information related to them would be deleted from the site? All of their posts, chats, and their user account?
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@pitaj said:
@purldator sorry, that was a typo. It was supposed to say remove.
I'm still not quite getting it. When a person chooses to leave, they would hit the download button, download their posts and stuff, and then all of the information related to them would be deleted from the site? All of their posts, chats, and their user account?
No, this would allow them to take their content, not erase it. My forum's TOS (or the draft at least) is explicit in stating that the license they grant to me is 'forever' to make sure the forum's archive is kept intact, and also for any reasons that may arise due to abuse.
I only want a member to be able to download everything, or anything that they participated in (see my second proposal in my OP) if allowed by the OP of the topic.
Chat history would be the only thing erasable if possible after a user downloads a chat's history.
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@purldator okay, so a plugin to fill this need would:
Allow a user to download all of his / her content (and content they participated in) from the site (posts, chat history)
Allow a user to optionally delete the chat history -
@pitaj said:
@purldator okay, so a plugin to fill this need would:
Allow a user to download all of his / her content (and content they participated in) from the site (posts, chat history)
Allow a user to optionally delete the chat historyYes, that is correct.
Still, I believe this should be in core. If they can delete their account, at least let them take a copy of everything before they do it. -
@purldator said:
My forum's TOS (or the draft at least) is explicit in stating that the license they grant to me is 'forever' to make sure the forum's archive is kept intact, and also for any reasons that may arise due to abuse.How would you enforce this when a user can currently delete and purge their topics and posts etc. Unless you plan to specifically remove the delete buttons for everyone except admins and moderators?
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@a_5mith said:
@purldator said:
My forum's TOS (or the draft at least) is explicit in stating that the license they grant to me is 'forever' to make sure the forum's archive is kept intact, and also for any reasons that may arise due to abuse.How would you enforce this when a user can currently delete and purge their topics and posts etc. Unless you plan to specifically remove the delete buttons for everyone except admins and moderators?
If that's the default for a vanilla NodeBB install, then I suppose I shall keep looking elsewhere.
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@purldator It's the case in nearly all forum platforms.
I came from SMF, that allowed people to delete their own post. Most will allow a time to delete, but NodeBB currently doesn't. And if that time passed, most would just edit the post with -deleted- or something. Again, some allow a time limit on this too for typos and that sort of thing. But again, not currently a feature of NodeBB.
It should be very simple to remove the Delete & Purge buttons for normal users, so I wouldn't let that stop you from using NodeBB for your next project. But no forum platform would ever be perfect for every user. So it's usually a case of if enough people request a feature, it will be implemented a version or two down the line.
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@a_5mith I fully understand that. I come from SMF, in terms of the software my community was using.
But I am saying I've had a very serious problem before, where no time limits were set on deletion and edification. One previous member had the time and energy to go through their 200+ forum history and erase everything.
Once bitten, twice shy. If I have to mod something but the feature still technically 'exists' (as in, it's only a cover-up on the ui) then I don't feel safe using the software.
