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If you ask hackernews to delete your comment(s), they refuse to do so. Instead, they just set the username of the comment to deleted.
by I_am_tiberius 3y ago
If you ask hackernews to delete your comment(s), they refuse to do so. Instead, they just set the username of the comment to deleted.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoFrom what I have seen, the servers for hackernews are a bit delicate. At least when OpenAI does something stupid...if our usernames are a primary key ID a single update to remove the username is far less costly than actually dropping all the comments. Or they just want to have an archive for some background monetization scheme, anything is possible!