Maybe some database restoring gone wrong?
I hope its that and not something more dubious.
* edited the content of user comments without acknowledgment,
* threatened to or has removed or installed moderators into communities to circumvent the blackout
* threatened to "un-private" communities
Why are you so sure that he wouldn't authorize un-deletion of comments?
Still happened, though.
That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year.
This all smacks of low quality speculation thats mostly a consequence of the current outrage cycle of the week.
his recent behavior suggest that's a possibility
Also, why do people who are defending him always refer to him being drunk? Is he granted some sort of “blame the booze” pass for those actions?
Ok, so how do I delete my HN comments?
Even so, that still may not save you. Say you decide you want your post here deleted. Say HN does so, but leaves my reply. And say my reply looks like this:
> We'll see about that the minute someone makes a GDPR request to delete their stuff.
Well, Paul-Craft, I don't think it's going to work like that...
[End of pretend reply.]
Now your post is quoted by mine, and your name is mentioned in mine as the author. Now you cannot delete all traces of your post without editing mine.
Now what?
gdpr =/= right to be forgotten (I'm not even sure if the latter cares about that. That's more about search indexing than perfectly scrubbing your history). GDPR is there to ensure your data can't be stored indefinitely on some private server without your ability to withdraw it.
Paul-Craft being quoted saying something that one time on June 17th 2023 is 100x less valuable to a data harvester then a directly post from Paul-Craft himself.
>Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year.
I don't think GDPR cares about scale so much as compliance. Scale just affects the fine.
>This all smacks of low quality speculation thats mostly a consequence of the current outrage cycle of the week.
Sure, I don't disagree. As long as we agree we are both dabbling in speculation. could be an honest mistake, could be the next phase of panic from a sight that is flailing about to keep its valuation from dropping further. I won't claim any authority on the topic.
I do find it entertaining how thoroughly they are stumbling over this tho. And we still have over a week until the real action.