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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 some…
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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…
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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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