I'm not one to "dirty delete, myself. I never do it, and really never have. From Facebook, through Twitter, Reddit and now here, it's just... Not something I do.
Unless I'm getting dogpiled to the point of a doxxing attempt (Twitter, Reddit, Facebook), I accidentally double-post/comment or a link doesn't work, or I am so glaringly wrong about something that it simply isn't worth it being there anymore, I just... Don't do it. Not posts. Not comments. And certainly not messages. I fucking hate women (and in my experience it is nearly always women) who do that in "private" messages/chats/whatever. It really pisses me off. Which is something.
I'm 100% sure that this has made me lose some "friendships" (again, on those other sites. Particularly the compulsorily non-anonymous one), and it has left me in some... Dubious positions. But I simply won't do it.
I sometimes (usually) admit when I am wrong, or made a mistake. Or else, I just let the thread go dead. Like if I just... Don't have time or energy to deal with it.
I realise that my... Philosophy, here, is not for everyone. I'm not claiming some sort of "moral high ground". But I will say that people's deleting of their comments here (and also posts) does get pretty frustrating and annoying, at times. Particularly as we don't have any way to see what was said, after it is gone. I'm not sure if it is getting worse or better, but it certainly doesn't seem to have improved, lol.
Some sort of "archiving" or "snapshot" system, a la the Reddit sites that I listed, would be fantastic. Game-changing, even. If someone could develop the code for it, and the site allowed it.
Controversial? Sure, but we're (theoretically) anonymous anyway, and even with those Reddit versions, it didn't save everything, and if you made a mistake and deleted it quick enough, it generally didn't save/make it to archive...
But I do think it would make a huge difference, cut down on spam, and on the "dirty delete" shit I just outlined...
Thoughts?
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Well played.
Not entirely anonymous are we? Still leave some tracks, anyhow onto the idea itself Should not be to hard to code something, there is no open api to my knowledge and working with a reverse engineered one is a pain since they can change whenever but scrapping should be able to get most of it, And dirty deletes are fun, I still remember some multi user and some others people pressure points where they then delete it quickly afterwards haha, anyhow getting the code up is somewhat easy, the pain atleast for me would be to host it, and then keeping it up and maintained, a project I could do just for fun but not over time.
Totally fair comment. And yeah, on the “anonymity” thing… People definitely know where I live/grew up, at least, ha.
But that’s ok. I accept that. I’m still… Not likely to delete my stuff, unless shit goes south re doxxing or something, lol.
Seems unlikely we would have the same level of psychotic local stalker-troll (if there are even “locals”, to me, on here, lol) that I have encountered on the other three…
Facebook in particular… People’s behaviour there, even though it lacks the even attempted anonymity… Jesus Christ I have no idea why people do the stuff that I experienced there. Including from complete randoms…
So… I like to think we are better than that, here. Archive or no archive, lol.
I'm sure the magically anonymous owners of this totally-not-glowing-in-the-dark website will get right on that.
Why would you even use this site if you truly believed this? There's plenty of other sites that allow free speech (voat.xyz and poal.co come to mind), so why use this one?
Everyone here knows they're on a fed watchlist by now and should have the good sense to know to be careful about what they say. Seriously, there's no difference in posting here versus any other social media site. You're trying to signal your intelligence to others, but it has the opposite effect of what you think it does.
I clean out old posts simply because leaving a digital trail is stupid when your enemies will use it against you. You gain nothing by leaving the trail and have a great deal to lose.
This should be a sign that this site isn't the haven some believe it to be. Jannies are gonna jannie.
yep, because this site is becoming Reddit 2.0 with mods deleting perfectly acceptable comments that go against the NWO agenda.
oy vey!