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deleting posts
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It would be nice if we could delete posts we'd made in communities even if we have been banned from those communities.
Full description of the idea
See above. I'm mostly just wanting to clean up after youthful peccadillos ;)
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I'm always surprised when a comment 'goes away' suddenly at a community. As a community moderator for several communities, I find it sad when comments disappear...
Just my two cents worth...
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There are just times when I hate to see a comment go, is all...
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But I still hate to see some comments go away, even so...
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If LJ tried to change its policies so that the creator of any text was not able to delete it at will, especially since the ability to do so has existed pretty much since day 1, I guarantee that there would be an explosion the likes of which has never been seen on LJ before, especially once Slashdot, El Reg, and the various internet legal organizations picked up on it. Selling the company to the Russians and terminating a good chunk of the US office would be nothing.
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Let's not confuse what what we think is right, with actual legal restrictions.
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Someone I know got something taken down because it was reproducing one of their comments, about a paragraph worth, without authorization.
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I feel the same way. Because sometimes a comment vanishing destroys all context for a discussion.
And, if a whole post can be ripped away, a whole discussion existing in the comments may be destroyed. Even when the original post did nothing but spark the discussion, and the value to the community is in the discussion itself.
Plus, if I ban someone from my community (or my personal journal), I don't think they should be able to alter that journal in any way, including "cleaning up" evidence of their past misdeeds.
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Why not? Who really cares... I mean, it's your community and they're banned. I'm a mod of various communities, and I don't really care about keeping a record of Evil Deeds.
And, if a whole post can be ripped away, a whole discussion existing in the comments may be destroyed.I guess, but I think that there is also a community value in respecting people's wishes regarding their privacy and control over their own words. I would not want to keep posts or comments on my community against the will of the person who posted them. to me that feels like a betrayal of my community members ( ... )
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