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It's all public say. Why should a person sudden have the right to hide all that they have said publicly?
Have an account clause that your comments are immortalized til far far into the future (till the Half-bakery saves the universe) and you can only delete the descriptions/details of yourself. Really
this is for the conversation sanity of all the other participants. A user drawn here must have started out caring about the other participants.
A nondescript user logon, and not filling out user description can be used for those whom don't want to back the self.
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NO! Everyone has the right to delete/ammend anything they've said here. If I think the opposite tomorrow, then I'll post that instead. Ha |
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Much as I dislike the holes that are left when a user deletes
their account, I have to agree with the policy of allowing total
deletion. |
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Deletions happen. The purpose of your computer 'screenshot' function is to save for posterity all those comments you wish to use for blackmail and lawsuits. |
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// collective property. // |
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All your word are belong to us ... |
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// your computer 'screenshot' function // |
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Actually, a web page crawler function is better. |
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//It's not your personal property, it's collective property.// |
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Unless "the collective" can get [xenzag] to start using a spellchecker, I'll have to disagree. |
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I think it would be an improvement, though not as effective as not allowing
deletion, to, instead of having deleted annos disappear totally, have them
replaced with something like "[removed]" or "[deleted]", like Reddit does.
Then at least you know there was something in between the previous anno
and the next one, so you can try to mentally fill in (or ask) what might have
been said, based on what the reply to it says. As it is, you might not even
realize the next anno is replying to a now-deleted one until you get most of
the way through reading it. |
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A further improvement in compromise could be to turn those "[deleted]"
indicators into communally editable summaries of what was said, so that
readers can still have context even though the original writing is gone—it
could work like Stack Exchange's "community wiki" answers. But that could be
a lot of programming effort. |
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(Note: Mentioning other websites above is only to refer to their features for
explanatory purposes, and is not intended to imply endorsement of those
websites or their administration. Indeed, I am unhappy with them.) |
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What if when someone deleted their account, their
annotations became a part of just a generic
anonymous one for unattributed but stated stuff?
The history would be preserved, but they'd no longer
be identified with it. |
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//Unless "the collective" can get [xenzag] to start
using a spellchecker, I'll have to disagree.
[FlyingToaster] Your disagreement encourages, and
endorses my potential agreement. You get stronger
when you swim against the tide. |
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Yes, but you also encounter more turds. |
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Admittedly people want to amend or go back on what they say either because they were wrong or facts change. I still see no reason why they should be able to hide that change. It's even humbling to know that the change of mind is a valid, stronger ok act. There have been no arguments to say why the right to vaporise public statements is valid. It can only be a way to hide. |
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Then again mass deletions may cause people to start having wild remembrances of things not said. |
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I once revealed that 8th of 7 was actually a large
subterranean room full of millions of horse flies
that had collectively become self aware following
a simultaneous lightning strike and sewerage leak.
Tended to by the weekly visits of "Max The Minion"
who brings buckets of festering vegetables to feed
the hungry flying synapses, the flies were always
happy, and their secret was safe. I felt it was my
civic duty to my fellow creatives here to reveal the
truth of this perverse arrangement. I did however
subsequently delete the location details etc, but if
you have your way, all of this will now be laid
bare again. Just imagine the hordes of fly spray
and
flame thrower equipped zealots (Trumpites of
course) who will emerge again from their Mexican
bone
strewn caves and head zombie like to exterminate
both the 8th of 7 horde and Max's Frankenstein GM
vegetable patch. Is that really what you want?
Really? |
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Ah yes, that was when they put you on the stronger medication, wasn't it ? |
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Remembering ( in all it's forms), is the key to being/doing better. |
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It's never bugged me that someone can leave and take all of their written content with them. |
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What bugs me is that the written words of others go bye bye as well.
I think it would be good if all content not authored by the leaver remained intact. |
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Trying to piece together what the original content and replies might have been from the broken annos of others would be jolly good fun. |
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It's true..... If you delete an idea, or your account,
you take all of the comments and links you didn't
create with you into the void. |
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I know. Some of the things annoed by others on [UnaBubba]'s postings were pure literary gold. |
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Then <high-whistle, splat, puff-of-smoke> gone. |
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That day caused a great disturbance in the force, as though tens of voices were suddenly silenced... |
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// What if when someone deleted their account, their
annotations became a part of just a generic anonymous one
for unattributed but stated stuff? The history would be
preserved, but they'd no longer be identified with it. // |
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That also happens to be what Reddit does: the username on
posts and comments posted by later-deleted accounts
changes to "[deleted]", and it isn't a link to a user profile
anymore. |
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Guilty as charged, twice, for very personal reasaons. |
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If someone says "Don't", I immediately get the impulse to
"Do". It's simply in my nature to rebel. You campaiging for this
makes me feel the urge to do it again. It's hardwired in me. I
try and control it, but sometimes it's too late |
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Dear blissy, don't vote for Elizabeth Warren... |
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