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		tedunangst on Aug 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moving On... Why are people so adamant that nothing ever be deleted or changed? If you say something ridiculous and you don't delete it, you are in effect continuing to say it. They aren't pretending they never said it, they are acting like what was said doesn't belong on their website. I don't think anyone should be responsible for archiving and publishing their own mistakes for all eternity. If you want to archive it, fine. They aren't shooting out takedown notices.

yuvipanda on Aug 17, 2011 [–]

I think his point was that you can't delete it even if you wanted to - Google's Cache is fast, and there are other caching/archival services too.

They'd have been much better off plastering a huge notice on top of the old post and then linking to the new one.

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