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> My Reddit account [has] comments from 9 years ago still publicly available > motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Interesting
by j_s 10y ago
> My Reddit account [has] comments from 9 years ago still publicly available
> motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back.
Interesting that HN doesn't allow deletion of older comments; your account here appears to be roughly that same age.
It has also become a thing recently to cleanup Twitter history: I just deleted 36K tweets | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731227
- nojvek 10y agoYep and he's got 15000 karma, that's pretty impressive. Just getting my karma to 1000 took me a couple of years. I wonder how many people have > 10k karma in HN.
- j_s 10y agoHere is the top 100; lowest is currently ~22800: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders There are a few navel-gazing discussions; they are usually flagged by the moderators. Top 100 Users on Hacker News by H-Index | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512455
- pvg 10y agothey are usually flagged by the moderators By users, more likely.
- j_s 10y agoI guess I shouldn't have expected everyone to already know this, or to just take my word for it. [Edit] HN mod DanG has explicitly stated that mods "routinely downweight" meta-HN posts, which I chose to phrase as "they are usually flagged by the moderators". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13858395 When HN itself is involved it's a little bit different, because the hypnotic power of all things meta causes HN upvoters to go into an upvoting trance.
- pvg 10y agoI know this and the story that post is about got flagged right off the front page before moderators as much as looked at it as is the case for pretty much anything that instadrops off the front page.