Deleting posts

[kaan]

According to Danish law I have to delete every post a user has made if the user ask me to.
Is this supported or will it be

[bostasp]

...you've always been able to delete users posts if you're an administrator

[chris]

I think he means some kind of "Delete all Postings by user XXX" feature

Currently, you either have to go through all postings by hand or delete them using SQL-Queries....

[[Unknown]]

Hmm... I see.  I hate stupid Danish laws...

But, this should be an option - for example, in the delete this user screen.  Just a checkbox or something.

But what to do with topics they started?

-[Unknown]

[Fizzy]

We had that as a mod on yabbse by Jack R Abbit

http://www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=13569/0

Maybe it could be a mod for SMF ?
I've only ever had to use it once, but it did come in very handy

[[Unknown]]

At this point simply writing the feature up again would almost certainly be easier than porting it.

-[Unknown]

[dschwab9]

According to Danish law I have to delete every post a user has made if the user ask me to.

Even if your site policy states that all material posted becomes the property of yourdomain.com?

[kaan]

According to Danish law I have to delete every post a user has made if the user ask me to.

Even if your site policy states that all material posted becomes the property of yourdomain.com [nofollow]?

Yes, even then, this set of laws come under the Personal information act and every personal information related database of any sort needs to comply with it. I also have to give them full disclosure of all information stored about them, but that one is easy, i just give them an account and tell them to go look it up themself.

[unknown], that would be quite nice but i need to be able to delete the posts even after deleting the user profile too. I hope this isnt asking too much.

what i do now is the i use SQL to overwrite all posts by the user with "Deleted" and that is enough to satisfy the law, this could be the solution to the start of thread problem.

thanks in advance
kaan

[[Unknown]]

That is quite a solution.

How about something that allows you to "censor" all posts by a certain username, email, or even possibly IP with a certain text?  I could see it being over-used, but it would be useful for this law...

The censoring might just say make the posts say "[message censored by admin]" or something.  And, lol, you cold even have a message like this:
[message censored by admin]
[attachment removed by admin]

Please tell me subjects aren't a problem as well...

-[Unknown]

[kaan]

That is quite a solution.

How about something that allows you to "censor" all posts by a certain username, email, or even possibly IP with a certain text?  I could see it being over-used, but it would be useful for this law...

The censoring might just say make the posts say "[message censored by admin]" or something.  And, lol, you cold even have a message like this:
[message censored by admin]
[attachment removed by admin]

Please tell me subjects aren't a problem as well...

-[Unknown]

that would be just fine, if it means that the information is truly deleted, and no subjects arent normally personal related so that will be fine

thanks
kaan