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@herrabre First of all I want to make sure we're not misunderstanding each other. When you wrote postpone, in the sense of marketing stuff for people in different timezones, I assumed automatic publication. If (for the drama thing) you don't mean postpone-publish but rather "drafting" (think blogging), then you can ignore the rest of this post because drafting is something I fully support.
Well if you want to comment something later, why not just comment it later? If you, say, write something in the heat of a moment or something that may be considered inappropriate etc, then I don't see why - if you really want to publish something later - you simply publish it later.
I expect such a feature would just let you forget things that were postponed and then when they're published it still caused drama (unless you postpone the postponement...).
I humbly believe this is yet another technical solution to a social problem that will not really solve anything.
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@herrabre Jeez, talk about removing the social from social. Automated posts from what you think is a person writing it is evil.
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Well, most of the use cases are pretty bad. And, like, if you're unavailable and can't write something - then that's that. People aren't accessible all the time (and shouldn't appear as they are either!).
If someone appears to be constantly devoted to publishing, but actually just slams a couple of posts into a queue, it could create unreasonable expectations.
I don't see any use of this other than creating a false persona (which won't be able to socially interact via a reply since the human is not actually available). The only valid non-evil case is what @solderpunk mentioned with random-delaying posts. But that's not the same as scheduling.
Humorous bots that post random stuff or whatnot is another kind of use, but not related to human beings trying to be antisocial.
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"For avoiding drama... well, avoiding the heat of the moment just works, right?" <- If there's an issue of drama then avoiding the symptoms won't make the problem go away.
I don't like "fixing" problems without actually fixing them. :)
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One purpose of "postponed posts" would be for delayed sending of announcements, eg. I'd like to announce the @KWLUG meeting two days before, one day before, four hours before and an hour before. It would be convenient if I could create all four announcements at the same time, but have them sent out at designated times.
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@bobjonkman Yeah, but that's a bot-job imho. Not related to humans piling up a bunch of stuff to post to appeal to other humans' need of continous stimuli.
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