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Why do you timestamp it ?
by dekervin 4y ago
Why do you timestamp it ?
- forgotmypw17 4y agoI think it is because the comment ranking changes over time, and there is no way (without access to the raw data) to see what comment was ranked where at a given time.
- tough 4y agoFear of manual moderation bringing it down?
- tom-thistime 4y agoI'm attempting to preserve a record of when the views expressed in the comment seemed popular. Opinions can change over time.
- jjulius 4y agoBecause it only took ~24 hours for this comment... >As someone in the industry, it's almost certainly not. ... to be proven wrong.
- tom-thistime 4y agoRight. And that felt obvious at the time ... but if you don't timestamp it, who knows (later on) whether it really was obvious, or hindsight? I also thought that question (Hindsight or Not?) might be interesting to more people than just me.