Hide posts and topics

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What do you think about new feature and option to hide posts and topics in bitcointalk forum?

I already read all of your responses in this thread and I'm on the same page with others but having said that, the only other real use case for this is if you want to create a topic and make it go live in some other time ^{[some use "Archival" board for this]} or simply test your codes/design ^{[also can be done using the "preview" function for the majority of cases]}. In other words, it's not worth the effort to tweak a lot of codes for implementing such features.

User can choose to hide or not, but moderators can still see the posts.
This can be good for keeping privacy.

If someone else other than you can see it, then it defeats its purpose.

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You advertise a campaign for what ... if every post and topic you hide from everyone

I did not say to hide all posts from everyone, but only some of them if you want.
I say this because I recently saw some users deleting thousands of their post concerned about their privacy.
Some alternative for this would be nice

This is a public discussion forum. If you're worried about your privacy you shouldn't be posting things that can identify you but if you're that concerned about privacy you shouldn't be posting them to a message board hidden or not because they can be intercepted in a number or ways. If you want to do this either hold things in a draft, message them to yourself or even better just keep a digital notepad with this stuff written down but I don't see the point of having it as a forum feature.

So you mean people are deleting their old post? But there's no way you can get escaped of LoyceV archive since it will automatically archive a post once posted. So, if you post a thread public at the beginning, that will be accessible by archived version and if you create a thread with hiding from everyone (guess it has been implememted), what's the purpose of your thread? None. Then, we are good with what we have now I think.

Looks at this member who deleted almost all of his posts: BobLawblaw
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5263490.0

Yes people can still find posts in LoyceV archives or archived with wayback machine but it is not exactly the same.

What do you mean by privacy?  
If someone is privacy oriented, then they should not create any username that links them, should use tor browser when visiting the forum and shouldn't post any sensitive personal information in the forum. It's that simple.

All the stuff about the amount of information the forum retains and how best one can practice privacy in the forum can be got here: https://bitcointalk.org/privacy.php

Maybe he made a mistake or posted his wallet address or some other sensitive information in past and he wants to hide it now.
Moderators can hide post and move them right?

But regardless of whether we allowed this feature or not some users would still decide at later date that they might now want they posted to be available. People are free to delete them but people should be careful whatever they post online as once it's out there it's likely there forever as some site or another will likely be indexing or archiving it.