I was thinking about something earlier. If you nade your messages on sn disappear...would you remain relevent?
As long as you keep interacting with people and leave your stuff up long enough, I imagine you would.
We've had some fairly prominent folks who delete a lot of their content.
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A one year deletion cycle? It defeats the purpose of stacker news though.....
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I don't personally like deleting content, but stacker news' purpose is to be a valued place for stackers to share information. If ephemeral posts and comments are what some stackers value, then it's good that SN makes it possible.
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Me either. But l have thought about it, and l have seen it done before. That fandago guy does it often.
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@k00b what are your thoughts on deleting and SN? Are we being overprotective of our useless thoughts and opinions? Lol
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @nym 4 Oct
I don’t mind it. I know HN limits what you can delete to preserve conversation threads, unless you email them with a request for deletion.
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Can that happen here? If you delete the post, will all the comments disappear?
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I don’t think so. Deleted items are overwritten with “deleted by author” to preserve the item in the item tree (parent child, reply to, etc) but the content itself is gone
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