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Still puzzles participants in conversations and gives them an incentive to spider and backup whole threads. It's probably an acceptable workaround but I believ

by muyuu 12y ago

Still puzzles participants in conversations and gives them an incentive to spider and backup whole threads. It's probably an acceptable workaround but I believe it's best to always remember than the Internet simply doesn't forget. Even if some level of exposure can be minimised, nothing you can remotely call "protection". It can even be argued that this feature promotes irresponsible behaviour ("I can always delete it later" - no, you really can't). You can take many approaches between not deleting at all and delete from your servers (obviously you can't "delete" from the collective internet memory). All of them with pros and cons.

k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "I believe it's best to always remember than the Internet simply doesn't forget" Let's also not forget that the internet is still a very new thing. Not everyone understands the consequences of posting and that that content may never fully go away. We can't force them to learn this lesson when it's too late. It seems like we should have some measures in place so people who didn't understand the risks at the time have a solution. Deleting your account may not be truly permanent but it will help someone who wants content disassociated with them in most cases. We can keep the content available under a different name ('deleted' or a random string) and then the conversation doesn't get destroyed.