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Its a practical reality of the internet. It would be simply naive to believe that all content on Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and wherever else any of us post h
by sethhochberg 2y ago
Its a practical reality of the internet. It would be simply naive to believe that all content on Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and wherever else any of us post has not been scraped and archived by dozens of parties who I never explicitly authorized to archive my words.
When I say "rule", I'm speaking in terms of "how each person posting content should operate". Once you make your words public, you (should) have no expectation of being able to take them back.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoIt's true that I can't undo Reddit having sold my content for models, I don't lose sleep about what I can't change. But we have every expectation (on every site but this one) that we can delete our content to empty out the original context.
- Arnt 2y agoSO lets your delete your unanswered questions, and also your unaccepted answers. It doesn't let you delete your question after someone has gone to the trouble of answering though. Good thing IMO.