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Maybe he wants some control over what a large corporation keeps about him.

kristofferR 6y ago
Just don't give them anything then. What he's doing now is like handling the corporation a piece of writing on paper, letting people take pictures of it, then grabbing the paper back, ripping in up and dropping the paper thrash on the street. It doesn't serve anyone.
- burger_moon 6y ago
  This is a great example of why they had to write a python script to delete comments to prevent getting attacked later. People want to throw fits over everything
  - kristofferR 6y ago
    So what? What other people may chose to do is their issue. Dicks are easy to ignore, but don't be a dick to others in order to prevent potential dickiness reaching you.
    - UnpossibleJim 6y ago
      Wow. I feel like this is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, at this point. I delete all of my comments, popular and hated. Equally. I don't pick and choose. There's a 48 hour clock on it. No one cares about a conversation 48 hours later on Reddit... No one cares 12 hours later, really. But if you want to think I'm a "dick", because I only give someone 48 hours to have my opinion on Reddit, well I'm old enough to live through that =) message boards don't have to be as permanent as they want them to be.
      - dependenttypes 6y ago
        > No one cares about a conversation 48 hours later on Reddit I do. All the reddit threads that I look at are from online searches regarding some sort of question that I have. Most of them tend to be months old, some even years. You just make the experience of people like me significantly worse. I wish that services like ceddit stored the content of user-deleted posts.
    - CathedralBorrow 6y ago
      > Dicks are easy to ignore Deleted comments are also easy to ignore. Deleting your comments regularly might be construed as a dick move by some people, but as you say, dicks are easy to ignore.
- guerrilla 6y ago
  It serves them, which is why they do it. They get to have converaations without them being used against them.
- jessaustin 6y ago
  It serves the user; that's why the user is doing it. Whom the hell else should ever be served? Dumb analogies are dumb. Carefully curating one's online content is in no way similar to "dropping the paper thrash on the street".
  - kristofferR 6y ago
    It's very similar, you leave thrash around for others to deal with. And it's just not "one's online content", you also degrade the online content of the ones who spent time replying to you and participating in the thread.
  - fzeroracer 6y ago
    I mean it's quite simple. It serves the user at the cost of the community at large. HN has similar problems because you can edit your post after people have replied to it. This means you can retroactively change history and how prior arguments were framed, which can make other people look like idiots or completely destroy a comment chain. If you're really concerned about anonymity or your history being used against you, then create throwaways. Otherwise you're not stopping corporations from keeping tabs on you, the moment you hit post that data's already been scraped and stored somewhere.
bcrosby95 6y ago
Does reddit actually delete posts from their systems? Or do they just flag it as deleted in their database? I always assume websites keep deleted data around. If you really want to be safe, you probably need to utilize multiple online identities. Give the squeaky clean one to your employer if they ask.
- CathedralBorrow 6y ago
  I regularly run an extension that first edits, then deletes all my comments.

Just don't give them anything then. What he's doing now is like handling the corporation a piece of writing on paper, letting people take pictures of it, then grabbing the paper back, ripping in up and dropping the paper thrash on the street. It doesn't serve anyone.

burger_moon 6y ago
This is a great example of why they had to write a python script to delete comments to prevent getting attacked later. People want to throw fits over everything
- kristofferR 6y ago
  So what? What other people may chose to do is their issue. Dicks are easy to ignore, but don't be a dick to others in order to prevent potential dickiness reaching you.
  - UnpossibleJim 6y ago
    Wow. I feel like this is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, at this point. I delete all of my comments, popular and hated. Equally. I don't pick and choose. There's a 48 hour clock on it. No one cares about a conversation 48 hours later on Reddit... No one cares 12 hours later, really. But if you want to think I'm a "dick", because I only give someone 48 hours to have my opinion on Reddit, well I'm old enough to live through that =) message boards don't have to be as permanent as they want them to be.
    - dependenttypes 6y ago
      > No one cares about a conversation 48 hours later on Reddit I do. All the reddit threads that I look at are from online searches regarding some sort of question that I have. Most of them tend to be months old, some even years. You just make the experience of people like me significantly worse. I wish that services like ceddit stored the content of user-deleted posts.
  - CathedralBorrow 6y ago
    > Dicks are easy to ignore Deleted comments are also easy to ignore. Deleting your comments regularly might be construed as a dick move by some people, but as you say, dicks are easy to ignore.
guerrilla 6y ago
It serves them, which is why they do it. They get to have converaations without them being used against them.
jessaustin 6y ago
It serves the user; that's why the user is doing it. Whom the hell else should ever be served? Dumb analogies are dumb. Carefully curating one's online content is in no way similar to "dropping the paper thrash on the street".
- kristofferR 6y ago
  It's very similar, you leave thrash around for others to deal with. And it's just not "one's online content", you also degrade the online content of the ones who spent time replying to you and participating in the thread.
- fzeroracer 6y ago
  I mean it's quite simple. It serves the user at the cost of the community at large. HN has similar problems because you can edit your post after people have replied to it. This means you can retroactively change history and how prior arguments were framed, which can make other people look like idiots or completely destroy a comment chain. If you're really concerned about anonymity or your history being used against you, then create throwaways. Otherwise you're not stopping corporations from keeping tabs on you, the moment you hit post that data's already been scraped and stored somewhere.

bcrosby95 6y ago

Does reddit actually delete posts from their systems? Or do they just flag it as deleted in their database? I always assume websites keep deleted data around. If you really want to be safe, you probably need to utilize multiple online identities. Give the squeaky clean one to your employer if they ask.

CathedralBorrow 6y ago
I regularly run an extension that first edits, then deletes all my comments.