draft feature suggestions

BahamutZERO

While the draft system is useful sometimes, I find myself spending a lot of effort going into the saved drafts page to delete the unwanted autosaves, or posting new replies with unnoticed old drafts in front of what I actually meant to post. It would be a lot better if there were:
-an option in the user profile settings or on the saved drafts page to disable automatic draft saving, and/or...
-a button to delete the saved draft for a particular thread while viewing that thread, somewhere around the post reply/save draft/preview buttons


e: I should have done a search first, there was a request for these features back in 2011 but I guess tube said no back then. It's been long enough since then though that I thinks it's worth bringing up again.

Tube

Feature upgrades are done through our software vendor, so when I say that it's not going to happen it doesn't mean that I'm denying you, it means that I know the vendor doesn't have it roadmapped. I'd like there to be a disable feature on the user level for drafts, but it's unlikely to happen in the near future.

BahamutZERO

I see, thank you for the clarification.

Barrakketh

I only tested this in Chrome (through Tampermonkey), but you could try this as a userscript:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Delete Draft
// @namespace    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/profile/8153/Barrakketh
// @version      0.1
// @description  Lets you delete drafts from the post box
// @author       Barrakketh
// @match        http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/**
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {

    String.prototype.format = function() {
        var args = arguments;
        return this.replace(/{(\d+)}/g, function(match, number) {
            return typeof args[number] != 'undefined'
            ? args[number]
            : '{' + number + '}'
            ;
        });
};
    function insertAfter(newNode, referenceNode) {
        referenceNode.parentNode.insertBefore(newNode, referenceNode.nextSibling);
    }
    
    var delete_button = document.createElement("a");
    delete_button.textContent = "Delete Draft";
    delete_button.className = "Button";
    delete_button.style.margin = "0px 6 px";
    
    delete_button.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
        e.preventDefault();

        var textarea = document.querySelector('textarea[id^=Form_Body]');
        var draft_id = document.querySelector('#Form_DraftID').getAttribute('value');
        var trans_key = document.querySelector('#Form_TransientKey').getAttribute('value');
        if (draft_id) {
            var uri = '/vanilla/drafts/delete/{0}/{1}?Target=drafts'.format(draft_id, trans_key);
            var fd = new FormData();
            fd.append("DeliveryType", "BOOL");
            var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhr.open("GET", uri);
            xhr.send(fd);
        }
        textarea.value = "";
    });
    
    
    insertAfter(delete_button, document.querySelector('div.Buttons > a.DraftButton'));
    
})();

It adds a delete draft button.