A complete side-note, but it's hard to figure out where else to put this.
HN should not allow you to delete a post once it has a child comment. I find that people sometimes delete entire stacks of comments that have children (as in this case) when they don't seem to like how the argument is going. (This is not super-common, but it happens often enough that I've noticed it.) It's enormously frustrating for readers - not to mention childish on the part of the deleters.
Now, as for the rest of you kids, get off my lawn.
It seems to be something that has been 'figured out' and is now spreading. I'll theorize that it has to do with people that are afraid of the down-mod mob to avoid their karma taking a hit after posting something silly or they're afraid of being found in a decade by a google search from some prospective employer.
I could restore the deleted bits (without naming the author) if that's desired?
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A complete side-note, but it's hard to figure out where else to put this.
HN should not allow you to delete a post once it has a child comment. I find that people sometimes delete entire stacks of comments that have children (as in this case) when they don't seem to like how the argument is going. (This is not super-common, but it happens often enough that I've noticed it.) It's enormously frustrating for readers - not to mention childish on the part of the deleters.
Now, as for the rest of you kids, get off my lawn.
It happened again, above.
It seems to be something that has been 'figured out' and is now spreading. I'll theorize that it has to do with people that are afraid of the down-mod mob to avoid their karma taking a hit after posting something silly or they're afraid of being found in a decade by a google search from some prospective employer.
I could restore the deleted bits (without naming the author) if that's desired?
Maybe a retract button instead of delete would be a fair compromise? The comment still appears but the karma is frozen and cannot be downvoted further
Not a bad idea. Add an optional 'reason' field for the mea culpa as well.
pre-sets:
- put foot in mouth
- drunk in charge of keyboard
- 4 am
- the cat did it
- sincerely regret writing that