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The issue is Creative Commons content, if you are legitimately pruning old low value content of yours that is totaly fine. But rage quits where people just want
by codinghorror 12y ago
The issue is Creative Commons content, if you are legitimately pruning old low value content of yours that is totaly fine. But rage quits where people just want to take their content and go home, withdrawing it from the commons out of anger, is not OK.
You can always get to older content even deleted content through the regular Creative Commons data dumps that the whole Stack network publishes torrents of. You can also, if you sign an NDA, get a more complete data set for research purposes.
- bhayden 12y ago>withdrawing it from the commons out of anger, is not OK. This is pretty obviously not what happened here, though.
- davidgerard 12y agoIt's pretty clear you need a way for people to remove their names, then.
- aalear 12y agoWe have that. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96732/how-do-i-remove-my-name-from-a-post-in-accordance-with-ccwiki http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96732/how-do-i-remov...
- davidgerard 12y agoThat appears to say you have "you could ask, a mod might action it, but if they're opposed you might be able to beg a dev to ..." That is to say, you really don't "have that".