With the reception that this article has gotten so far, I suspect that it won’t result in a list of extant norms. I’ll give it a day or two so that everyone that wants to can weigh in, and then I’ll probably end up deleting it,.
I would prefer if you don’t delete it. As for now, you aren’t losing any karma from it, and there are already several comments. I am often frustrated when comments with replies get deleted and you can read the replies while the context is inaccessible. I don’t know what happens when a post with comments is deleted.
Moreover, even if the suggestion isn’t agreed upon, its existence at least makes clear what it is not agreed upon, and saves effort of future readers who may propose the same.
I would suspect that the whole thing including comments all vanishes, but I haven’t tested it yet.
edit—I really don’t care about karma, the only use it seems to have is voting people down and being able to post on the front page, and I doubt I’ll ever do either of those things. I’ll happily let other people be the top contributors.
The post disappears from the list of posts, and probably can’t be found by searching, but it still exists and can be linked to and commented on, and any comments on it still appear in the new comments feed.
I think it also can’t be voted on after being deleted, but I wouldn’t swear to it.
With the reception that this article has gotten so far, I suspect that it won’t result in a list of extant norms. I’ll give it a day or two so that everyone that wants to can weigh in, and then I’ll probably end up deleting it,.
I would prefer if you don’t delete it. As for now, you aren’t losing any karma from it, and there are already several comments. I am often frustrated when comments with replies get deleted and you can read the replies while the context is inaccessible. I don’t know what happens when a post with comments is deleted.
Moreover, even if the suggestion isn’t agreed upon, its existence at least makes clear what it is not agreed upon, and saves effort of future readers who may propose the same.
I would suspect that the whole thing including comments all vanishes, but I haven’t tested it yet.
edit—I really don’t care about karma, the only use it seems to have is voting people down and being able to post on the front page, and I doubt I’ll ever do either of those things. I’ll happily let other people be the top contributors.
The post disappears from the list of posts, and probably can’t be found by searching, but it still exists and can be linked to and commented on, and any comments on it still appear in the new comments feed.
I think it also can’t be voted on after being deleted, but I wouldn’t swear to it.
How refreshingly counterintuitive. (-_-)