[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5093: Proposal to allow users to remove URLs that they have added to their posts in the support forums

[Making WordPress.org]

#5093: Proposal to allow users to remove URLs that they have added to their posts
in the support forums
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 Reporter:  carike                |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:
Component:  Support Forums        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-privacy-review  |
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Comment (by Clorith):

 So my extended worries are that by providing a tool here, we are
 legitimizing the request to have URLs removed, this will lead to _more_ of
 them, not less.

 Oh, you offer a tool to remove my URL, but it didn't remove _all_ versions
 of it, fix it, we've now made it clear we will fix it, and therefore have
 to honor this and do the extra labor our selves.

 The nature of links is that they are on the internet, they are
 discoverable in one way or another, so why go to all the extra work of
 trying to hide them?

 This is as much a matter of convenience and staffing, and isn't really a
 legitimate huge concern in my opinion, we get far less requests to remove
 links than you would think.

 We've introduced a field for users to post into if they wish to do so
 (I've seen your related topic), if they choose not to use that field, this
 is on them, and not us.

 I'm all for looking at new alternatives, but to me, this is most
 definitely a detrimental approach that will lead to an unacceptable burden
 on our volunteer moderation crew, and that's just speaking from the
 international forum which has very active mods, now imagine the outcries
 on a rosetta site which only gets moderated once a week for example, any
 change we make has far reaching impacts on the other parts of our
 community, and this would not be a good one in my opinion.

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