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Deleting messages was alreday supported in telegram for years. They just added the option to partially delete a whole conversation (whereas you could delete onl
by elcomet 5y ago
Deleting messages was alreday supported in telegram for years. They just added the option to partially delete a whole conversation (whereas you could delete only the full conversation, or messages one by one).
- dathinab 5y agoyes, but that makes a very big difference for the usability for cyber mobbing, extortion and similar.
- handoflixue 5y agoHow so? You could already delete the whole conversation to avoid leaving traces, or individual messages if you want to create a misleading log. What specific tactics does the new method open up?
- dathinab 5y agoFor e.g. abusesive relation ship sever (and sadly often effective) cases of Gaslightling are pretty common, similar tackticks are often applied in other cases, too. And with fully deleting messages this opens quite a bit of possibilities. If they instead would just make the message unreadable, i.e. leaf a placeholder behind this would be a different thing.
- afiori 5y agoalso given that they add an "edited" flag; a deletion is a substantial edit. also I would like to have a flag for silent messages,
- elzbardico 5y agoBlock the person. Problem solved