If I make a comment, then the author deletes the post, is my comment lost as well? I’m pretty sure I don’t actually need a record of things I’ve said, and that my comments aren’t valuable enough to justify extra effort, but it kind of bugs me.
Has anyone written the scraper or script to save a copy of everything you write on LW, so it’s available even if it gets deleted later? If it archived the post and comment thread you’re responding to, it would be all right.
Not on my profile page, as far as I’ve been able to tell. Not important enough to dig around GW. I think I’ll start just saving local copies of some of my comments, and decide whether to turn them into a shortform if I notice they’re deleted.
Would it be simple for the system to send me a PM with the contents when a comment is deleted by a post author (either directly or by deleting the post that contains it)?
In addition to being able to find your own recent comments, another issue is links to comments dying. For example if I were to link to this comment, I would worry it might quietly disappear at some point.
If I make a comment, then the author deletes the post, is my comment lost as well? I’m pretty sure I don’t actually need a record of things I’ve said, and that my comments aren’t valuable enough to justify extra effort, but it kind of bugs me.
Has anyone written the scraper or script to save a copy of everything you write on LW, so it’s available even if it gets deleted later? If it archived the post and comment thread you’re responding to, it would be all right.
Currently they are still available but hard to find on greaterwrong. (I think maybe also on your profile page?)
I think probably we should make it so the comment thread structure is preserved on LW, we just haven’t gotten around to it.
Not on my profile page, as far as I’ve been able to tell. Not important enough to dig around GW. I think I’ll start just saving local copies of some of my comments, and decide whether to turn them into a shortform if I notice they’re deleted.
Would it be simple for the system to send me a PM with the contents when a comment is deleted by a post author (either directly or by deleting the post that contains it)?
I think it’s simpler to make them preserved on on your profile and/or on the original post.
In addition to being able to find your own recent comments, another issue is links to comments dying. For example if I were to link to this comment, I would worry it might quietly disappear at some point.
Yeah.
IMO this is correct to fix, there’s just a lot of other stuff to do and it hasn’t made it to the top of the queue