We need a delete button for archive messages so we don’t need to keep them. Imagine a lot of messages in your archive box that you want to delete! If there is a thread on this @Sydney_H or @Jeremy u can merge.
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Happy to see support for this
Let me take a little time to explain why this isn’t going to happen (at least no time soon). In order for the team to review a user’s history on the forums we need all of the user’s inactive and/or closed content to be archived. That way the forum team can make an educated decision when handling flags and reports of bad behavior. If we delete everything that a user has participated in (even private messages because yes…ton’s of rule violations happen from within private messages and get flagged) then we have nothing to go off of when deciding how to handle flags.
Hope this helps explain a little bit more
Moved this to Miscellaneous since feature requests don’t go in Site Feedback. @lanafrazer_episode you’ll need to change the title to FORUM: Deleting Archive Messages since this is a request specifically for the forum.
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