reply on: Why I Use Disappearing Messages \ stacker news ~security

20 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 4 Oct \ parent \ on: Why I Use Disappearing Messages security

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.

A one year deletion cycle? It defeats the purpose of stacker news though.....

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 4 Oct

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.

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 4 Oct

Me either. But l have thought about it, and l have seen it done before. That fandago guy does it often.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Satosora 4 Oct

@k00b what are your thoughts on deleting and SN? Are we being overprotective of our useless thoughts and opinions? Lol

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.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 4 Oct

Can that happen here? If you delete the post, will all the comments disappear?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 5 Oct

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