On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 at 15:39:13, Xyne wrote:
On 2014-07-25 19:49 +0200 Lukas Fleischer wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 at 18:42:22, Xyne wrote:
On 2014-07-25 11:31 +0200 Lukas Fleischer wrote:
This allows Trusted Users to check whether a user posted a politically incorrect comment, even if he already deleted it.
Why keep "deleted" comments? How long are they kept?
Yes. Forever.
Is there some technical reason for not deleting comments? If not, please (re)consider actually deleting them. Keeping them is simultaneously a waste of bits and a bit creepy.
Obviously, there is no way to check whether a user insulted someone else (or misbehaved in some other way) and deleted the comments afterwards if we remove them immediately. Some users even suggested to drop the comment deletion feature [1], although for slightly different reasons. I personally think it is fine to keep deleted comments and only show them to Trusted Users -- they are trusted after all. Regarding the "waste of bits" argument, I would have guessed that the amount of deleted comments is negligibly small but it turns out that these comments account for ~10% of all AUR comments. So maybe we should clean them up occasionally? [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14840