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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by fastball on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:29PM (#24935365)
Forums are still closer to talking than they are to a book.

It's just that the internet allows them to be async conversations. A forum is fairly equivalent to email, just usually more public than email and the underlying infrastructure isn't federated.

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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by the_af on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:36PM (#24935461)
Agreed. But like email, I expect forum threads/posts to stay indefinitely and be searchable, until I explicitly delete them.

Email is a persistent conversation which gets archived indefinitely, not an ephemeral one like talking with our mouths.

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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by nine_k on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:52PM (#24936512)
Your personal email may be retained indefinitely.

Corporate email (and IM, etc) gets purged pretty quickly, within 2-3 years, unless you save a particular message / thread explicitly.

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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by BlueTemplar on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:13PM (#24936726)
Aren't they worried about losing most of the knowledge of the context of decisions made?
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