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Probably I'm a radical, but I just don't see the point of deleting factual information in the Internet, as long as it is true information. Someone creates an a
by Al-Khwarizmi 13y ago
Probably I'm a radical, but I just don't see the point of deleting factual information in the Internet, as long as it is true information.
Someone creates an article in Wikipedia about a subject that is totally irrelevant for most people? It's fine. It's not as if I'm ever going to see it (as I only tend to see articles I search for), and a Wikipedia page doesn't exactly take a lot of space by today's standards. We have the technology to build a virtually unlimited repository of all human knowledge, with no effective physical limits, and some mods keep acting as if it had to fit into a physical bookshelf.
With SO it's the same, why should I care if a question is considered to be irrelevant or even a duplicate? If I search for it on Google and it contains reliable information that solves my problem, it's useful for me. If it's really irrelevant, I'm not going to search for it, and therefore it's not going to make me lose any of my time.
We have search tools that keep getting better and better and allow us to pinpoint what is useful for us among a vast sea of information. There's no need to spend valuable human time on deleting stuff, the search engine will filter it for me so that I get what I want, thank you very much!