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> We should focus on changing society so it's not so critical of statements people made years ago when they changed as a person I'm a believer in progress long
by SquishyPanda23 8y ago
> We should focus on changing society so it's not so critical of statements people made years ago when they changed as a person
I'm a believer in progress long term, but I seriously doubt humanity is really capable of what you're describing in a way that's applied equally to all groups of people.
It seems several orders of magnitude much easier for people to develop the habit of recording information they might need later.
- brokenmachine 8y ago> It seems several orders of magnitude much easier for people to develop the habit of recording information they might need later. 6 months is fine for just social commentary and such, but it seems to me that a design like that effectively forces the community to be banal, because the community will not remember anything for any longer than that time. Better if there was some mechanism by which the most-saved (upvoted?) posts are retained by the network as a whole for longer. On, for example, Stackoverflow, most of the posts I've found useful have been more than 6 months old. 6 months is not such a long time unless we're talking about the latest pop culture hotness. We are lucky Shakespeare didn't use a platform that forgets everything after 6 months.