I just saw that part and he says "when you have emblems and stuff clutter up your vault and you have this,you can then safely delete your emblems etc..."
So he means AFTER the collections are introduced you can then delete emblems and shaders and such in your vault because they will be stored in your collections.
Yeah; subsequent posts to/with LTWood suggested that "now" meant "in the new build" rather than "right this very second in time". I think this is PROBABLY likely, but my overarching point is they suck at communicating this sort of thing.
I think they're trying a new tack this time by having the official Bungie twitter say "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T DELETE ANYTHING UNTIL 9/15", which is the safest course.
Bungie (Tyson Green) said "you can get rid of them now". In context he didn't mean right now, he was talking to DeeJ and meant that in The Taken King you'll be able to delete emblems without worrying about them being gone forever.
"So now you can wear armor that gives you elemental buffs"
"Now your exotics are stored here so you can get your alts dupes"
"Now" obviously meaning after the expansion launches, in this context. Same thing with the emblems.
* they didn't actually use these sentences but I think they illustrate the manner in which "now" was employed in context, making it consistent with their tweets and urges to not dismantle stuff and Datto's confirmation.
I'm not disagreeing.
I'm just saying that they say things that CAN be misinterpreted, as exemplified in this very thread, and then that gets telephoned around GAF, Reddit, GameFaqs, etc. Next thing you know a bunch of people delete shit.