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I can confirm a comment I made in r/vmware has been restored. I typically delete my comments after 24 hours. I have a single comment from 20 days ago that was previously deleted now back on my profile.
I'm curious, why do you do that?
This seems like some kind of political act of aggression intended to threaten someone or create a putsch of some kind. What's going on?
Elaborate, please.
If they don't respect your consent, why should anyone respect theirs?
Little off topic but this kbin.social site seems really nice. Very short and clear privacy/terms, very good default settings, nice design. Slow though.
If i understood correctly the migration brought lots of users that were not expected and the instance is getting overwhelmed. It should get back on its feet if they mindfully upgrade it
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What business value did editing users comments out from under them? Still happened, though.
I’m not sure how that’s relevant to my question. He was drunk and being an idiot, that wasn’t a major management decision like disallowing deletion of comments which affects the entire platform. That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year. T…
Ok, so how do I delete my HN comments?
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I’m not sure how that’s relevant to my question. He was drunk and being an idiot, that wasn’t a major management decision like disallowing deletion of comments which affects the entire platform. That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year. T…
> That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Ok, so how do I delete my HN comments?
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It is done as a courtesy to users to improve their engagement with the site. But the site is under no obligation to keep your deleted content deleted.
In some jurisdictions, maybe, but probably not the EU or California.
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Elaborate, please.
If someone resurrected your deleted texts and emails - deletion being the explicit expression of your non-consent to sharing, it would be difficult not to interpret it as an act of aggression. If they don't respect your consent, why should anyone respect theirs?
How do you reconcile the differences between the private nature of communications like text/emails vis-à-vis comments on a public forum?
> If they don't respect your consent, why should anyone respect theirs?
I'm interpreting "they" as Reddit (or any large media corp.), would I be wrong to interpret "anyone" in this context as a state actor?
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Why don’t you just use throwaways? I stopped reusing usernames online long long ago.
The trouble with throw away accounts is that there is technology to link the accounts by comparing your writing style to other accounts. Hacker news had a good demonstration of that awhile back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
Long time lurker, I checked my old account that I had used scripts to EDIT and DELETE every post, I used this script 3+ years ago and my 4+ year old comments are BACK. Only 2 of them were visible from my user page but ALL of them are back on subreddits. I had to go hunt one down and BAM, there's my comment and name etc. This is CRAZY!
Click context on my recent comment.