Removal of the soft delete to visitor messages

[gameman]

I don't like the fact that we must have a soft delete to our visitor messages. I like to remove my messages every so often so It looks clean! leaving a mostly blank message in place of the over one bothers me.

Another request is to lengthen visitor messages to 1500 characters.

Thanks!

 

[sqrage]

Hard deletes were disabled for everybody to stop the chance of abuse.

 

[Tru_Power22]

Abuse of what? Deleting Messages they didn't like?

 

[sqrage]

Not only abuse, but let's say a moderately accidentally using hard delete when soft delete should have been used (which is always the case).

If something gets hard deleted there's no way of getting it back, which should never be the case, in case it needs to be read in the future or someone wants a second look at it.

 

[gameman]

I still stand with my option of allowing a hard delete for special members.

 

[Tru_Power22]

I suppose...

How about a compromise, make the soft deletes less visible?

 

[gameman]

I suppose...

How about a compromise, make the soft deletes less visible?

Is it possible to have an invisible soft delete?

 

[Ghan]

I think that would sort of defeat the purpose of it being "soft".
Alternately, we could take away the ability for people to delete stuff in their visitor messages. Then you wouldn't see any deletes there.

 

[Romek]

Can regular uses see deleted messages on other peoples profiles?

 

[sqrage]

Then what would be the point of deleting it.

 

[Romek]

That's what I thought.

What's the matter if nobody else can see it anyway? It's not an issue big enough to allow permanent deleting of messages.

 

[gameman]

I think that would sort of defeat the purpose of it being "soft".

What's the matter if nobody else can see it anyway? It's not an issue big enough to allow permanent deleting of messages.

I just want an option to hide deleted messages. Most likely to be found under options on the user control panel.

 

[Ghan]

But the hacking of vB needed to do it is probably not warranted in this situation. The benefits aren't great enough, in my opinion.

 

[DM Cross]

Once upon a time, I thought there was a permission that allowed/disallowed user groups to see soft-deleted posts.

I'd have assumed there was one for Visitor Messages.

 

[Ghan]

There is a "Can See Deletion Notices" permission for usergroups on forum posts, but there is not one for visitor messages, unfortunately.

 

[DM Cross]

Tell the vB people I said they're idiots.

 

[gameman]

well damn, I guess there isn't a proper way to it then.

 

[DDRtists]

Seeing as you're the only one that can see it, no one else can, what does it matter? The only reason you should be looking at it is to see what someone said. So, see what they said, reply, and you're done. They really pose no problems.

 

[tom_mai78101]

I suggest to "archive" the visitor messages. I wonder if we could ask vB developers about this, or maybe request for one. At least it "hides" the messages away from view.

 

[Ghan]

I believe each user can choose individually to turn off their visitor messages if they wish.