Have delete_message_seconds in banning Guild Members also apply if that Member has already left the Guild

[TwilightZebby]

Currently banning a Member, who has already left or been removed, from a Guild does not respect the delete_message_seconds param - and thus does not delete their recent messages.

It would be nice if the delete_message_seconds param could be respected (when given) even when the Member being banned has already left the Guild.

Example cases of this could be when a Server Moderator forgets to include the option to delete the Member's recent messages, due to wanting to quickly remove the Member for spamming malicious links or adverts onto a Server (and thus shift-clicking the option in-client, or speedily using /ban commands as fast as possible). The Moderator(s) could then re-apply the ban afterwards if need be to also quickly purge the recent offending messages.

[jhgg]

We are considering adding this in the following weeks. To the community, would you prefer this to be the new default behavior, or would you want an optional parameter (default to false) that would enable this clean up.

My opinion, the fact that delete message days doesn't work when the user is gone from the guild, sounds like an unfortunate side-effect of how things currently work.

So, if we were to do this, we would just "make it work" the way you want. Looking for any dissenting opinions here before we begin implementation.

[prryplatypus]

I vote for it being the new default behavior, since that's what I'd expect to happen anyway (and it's not documented otherwise?).

[Woofer21]

I personally don't see a reason why it shouldn't delete messages from users who have left the server as long as you tell it to. Would consider its current behavior more bug like/unexpected.

[ckohen]

I'd be inclined to believe if you didn't want to delete messages if the member has left, you wouldn't set a value for this prop in the first place.

[windwhirl94]

I think most people expect the default behavior to be "delete messages regardless of whether the user is still on the server or not" at the time of placing the ban. UI doesn't give away that it's not currently the standard behavior anyway so changing the default behavior to "delete messages regardless of the banned user's presence in the server" makes way more sense since you'd avoid generating unnecessary confusion to server moderators across the entire platform.