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If I attended a social club and my comments from 10 years ago were permanently engraved on the walls, I'd be much less honest and open.
by devnullbrain 4y ago
If I attended a social club and my comments from 10 years ago were permanently engraved on the walls, I'd be much less honest and open.
- hgsgm 4y agoYou can use alts and delete old comments.
- andybak 4y agoYeah. Let's delete old blogs and shut down the internet archive as well. Personally I value the web as a knowledge store that persists. Use a non-logged chat service if you want a transient medium.
- grapesurgeon 4y ago[dead]
- devnullbrain 4y agoThere's no deleting beyond a time limit on HN
- tough 4y agoyou can request to the admins if you really need to
- jefftk 4y agoChanging alts is a lot more pro-social than deleting your comments: with alt rotation your old writing is still available for others to learn from.
- khmii 4y agoThere is also the aspect of upvoting/downvoting that completely skews honest opinion. Instead of acting like a bullshit filter, upvote/downvote tends to act like a dog getting petted for echoing back a popular opinion to the group or the dog being scolded for echoing an unpopular opinion. Dogs like to get pats on the head and don't like being yelled at. It is really one of the dumbest ideas of the last 30 years. Total disregard for human behavior and total disregard for the truth considering how often the truth is an unpopular opinion at a specific moment in time. Throwaway accounts to me are a small protest to this ridiculous system.