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Giving every HN user power to delete all his comments will make HN unreadable. To understand a comment, access to all ancestor comments is needed.
by wav-part 10y ago
Giving every HN user power to delete all his comments will make HN unreadable. To understand a comment, access to all ancestor comments is needed.
- therealidiot 10y agoI don't know, I often encounter [flagged] or whatever it is that happens to bad comments in the middle of a thread. It leaves me wondering what was actually said. So it happens already, just for different reasons...
- DanBC 10y agoYou can turn on [showdead] in your profile to see flagged comments.
- therealidiot 10y agoAh, I hadn't realised that!
- TuringTest 10y agoThere shouldn't be a need to delete one's comments to achieve a right to be forgotten, only to remove the identifier of the user who made them.
- edblarney 10y ago"Giving every HN user power to delete all his comments will make HN unreadable." No, I think it would be so rare it would not make a difference. For that 'small intrusion' on your HN experience, you get a hefty dose of privacy and security protection. I would gladly agree if HN allowed people to 'delete all comments'.