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I'm not sure history should be sacred. In the world of science, this is important, but otherwise, we didn't used to live in a universe where every embarrassing
by frognumber 3y ago
I'm not sure history should be sacred. In the world of science, this is important, but otherwise, we didn't used to live in a universe where every embarrassing thing we did in middle school would haunt us in our old age.
I feel bad for the younger generation. Privacy is important, and more so than "the history."
- code_biologist 3y agoLong ago, under a different account, I emailed dang about removing some comment content that became too identifying only years after the comments in question. He did so and was very gracious about it. dang, you're cool af and you make HN a great place!
- krapp 3y agoYou're being very obsequious about having to personally get approval from a moderator to do on your behalf something every other forum lets you do on your own by default.
- frognumber 3y agoPlus, dang does a good job. Not a perfect job -- everyone screws up once in a while -- but this forum works better than most.
- code_biologist 3y agoOur ancestor commenter Qwertious wants a maximally immutable comment history and you advocate a maximally mutable comment history. Who's right? There's a wide range of acceptable answers. Don't participate in a forum if you don't like their policy. Measured by overall forum quality HN has a decent enough approach.