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Deleting works!



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Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:29 am
salmintea says...



Hey guys! Although I used YWS a lot a year ago, I just got back onto it, and would like to erase my current works from my portfolio. I can only find a way to unpublish them and can't find a way to actually delete them. Can you help?
  





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Vervain says...



You can't delete works from your portfolio, because if they have reviews on them, this would delete the reviews -- because those are important to the site economy, we don't have a "delete work" function.

However (and this is what I did) you can delete all the text from your work (replace it with "text deleted" or the like if you want) and make it private -- basically ensuring that the text itself is taken off the internet.
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I think the best thing about making it into the quote generator is when nobody tells you, so one day you're just scrolling and voila, some phenomenally inane thing that crawled out of your dying synapses and immediately regretted being born the second it made contact with the air has been archived for all time. Or worse, a remark of only average inanity. Never tell me when you've put me in the generator. Pride-tinged regret just doesn't taste the same without the spice of surprise.
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