[quote=@Akayaofthemoon]
[@Mahz]

Hey Mahz, I have a question that has been nagging at me for a bit so thought I would ask. Will there ever be a way for a GM to delete things that aren't theirs in the character tab only? The reason I ask this is that I have found that the character tab builds up in group RPs when people abandon it or never even join in or just make a post in a wrong place. I have one what it says I have 22 characters or players but most of them aren't there anymore and it makes it hard to view the ones that are. I'm sure yo will say no because this might cause issues or an over power thing but it is a pain when you try to ask people to do something like edit it. They can't even delete the post or anything. 

Maybe will there be a way to delete your own posts? It might help that issue without having to worry about to much issues. I don't know, just thought I might ask. Also sorry if this has already been asked and or answered
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I'm generally reluctant to use deletion as a solution, but you expose a problem: there's no real system to actually manage the characters tab. And there's probably a good solution that doesn't involve outright deletion.

For example, it would be interesting to have an actual character system of some sort. From there would extend features like selecting the character you're posting as, giving GMs a place to annotate each character (particularly for table-top games), marking characters as active vs inactive (which would address your problem), etc.

There's probably some lightweight system that provides integration/structure when people want it and stays out of the way when they don't. In the meantime, I'm not sure what I can do to help. Maybe the upcoming shared GM space on each tab will provide a decent place to maintain a list of active chars until I can think of something better.

[quote=@Shienvien]
        There have been issues with players deliberately griefing things (including by nuking their own posts) even in RPs I've been in, so I won't support it. And then there are the 'I didn't do anything' deleter folks, which became abundant enough for us to have to implement storing of previous post versions.
        Besides, I'd not be happy if a CS I worked hard on, but for some reason forgot to archive, were to be arbitrarily eradicated (besides, people who read back in IC would often still want to see the old characters). 
       Eventually, there would be more convenient way to summon mods, though.
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Speaking of, historical post vandalism is a growing concern that I'll be able to address with my almost-finished post-history system. Imagine going back to a roleplay you poured many months into just to find out that one of the key characters simply vanished because they vandalized their posts.

At least with a post-history system, if someone vandalizes their posts, I can trivially execute a query like "revert all of foobar's edits made after 15 min ago".