My suggestion would be following implementation.

• have a "delete" button in the "..." dropdown. Visible only to the author.
• author clicks on the button
• if there are no sats on the post, then it maybe just shows up confirmation "Are you sure?" dialog, but otherwise deletes the post
• if there are some sats on the post (e.g. 1000), then it would show a dialog with table like

  Post earned:            +1000 sats
  Deletion fee/donation:  -1000 sats 
  (will be donated into daily rewards)
                                 ===
  TOTAL:                      0 sats

• And the sats would be donated to the daily rewards. (effectively reducing the authors balance by 1000 sats)

The reason for donating the sats to rewards is that the person that paid the sats already received their value (because presumably they already read the post). So there's no need to return the money to them. On the other hand removing post with sats is undesirable (we want to keep valuable posts ;)), so the person removing it should lose some sats.

If the author of the post already withdrew their sats from SN, then fair enough - I don't see that as a huge problem. If we would be really strict, the dialog could ask them to deposit 1000 sats to be able to delete the post... but that sounds like a bit too much.

@k00b, @kr fwiw

It's planned. There's no opposition to allow deletes on my end.

Just too much to do.

FWIW, I don't post much on Stacker News, cuz I know I can't edit or delete if it is later revealed to need an edit or delete because it's unfactual "news".

I second the motion for a delete button.

No one really enjoys the cringe when confronted with their “stupidity” from the past. 😅😊

Yeah, we should have a delete button, but...

Not having one makes you think harder before posting something.

UPDATE

Posts and Comments can now be deleted:

SN release: deletes 😱, link stuff, and post duplicate stuff
#121947

Lol no do overs in bitcoin

I have been wondering the same thing. Boosting.

I for one don't care strongly if someone deletes a post I tipped and get to keep the sats. I already read the post and 99% of the post I read I only read once. So I got my values worth even if it's deleted later. 99% of posts probably won't be deleted as well. Let's have basic delete feature and see how we go?

ya feel the same about some of the things I said here also. uhm. yee. I really should delete one comment I made here cuz it uhm, it's not that I said anything that I regret or anything. Sometime I spill too much outta mi heart. I could get into trouble if somebody start searching me. uhm. not that I paranoid or anything. when u got the time @k00b when u got the time. No hurry no worry.

Would love this as well. It does make question what I chat about here.

заметил беспорядок? наведи поряток. это лишь пример того на что способен биткоин...