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Treat deleted entries consistently to allow deletion of abusive comments
Short, concise description of the idea
If an entry does not exist, then the LiveJournal server should ALWAYS give an Error 404. Else, abusive comments are cached permanently in Google.
Full description of the ideaCurrently, if the LiveJournal server is requested to display
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This should absolutely be the case, without question.
(Excellent suggestion.)
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It's not a big drawback, and I'm not saying I oppose the suggestion. However it is worth noting.
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In fact it is possible (though a bigger pain, coding-wise) to make the LJ server serve more or less the same "no such entry" page it does now as a 404 page.
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I get an abusive comment.
Google caches that page.
I delete the comment.
It's still in the cache; it gets served on the google search results page under "cached".
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I get an abusive comment.
Google caches that page.
I delete the comment.
Google sees the 404 next time the spider comes through and deletes the cache and references to it from results.
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Also, wouldn't deleting the comment just remove that specific page (ie http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/917740.html?thread=14525420) from the cache? Would it still be cached under the http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/917740.html address? (Trying to understand!)
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We're venturing further away from what I know for sure about Google, but here we go:
Yes, they would still show a cache of the main comment page with the deleted comment for a while, until the cache was refreshed.
But the cache of the single comment would persist for quite a while longer (because it was changing less fast before being deleted), and be its own hit on the results page...unless the page is reported as a 404 the next time the spider comes through.
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