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Re:About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in... by gojomo on Thursday May 26, 2011 @03:56PM (#2589183)
Users may prune their own bookmarks when they discover the links broken – especially when considering some of the pre-Pinboard systems (like in-browser bookmarking) from which the earliest data in this analysis comes. So I suspect this underestimates link-rot.
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Re:About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in... by idlewords on Thursday May 26, 2011 @04:01PM (#2589202)
Just like it says in the article!
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Re:About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in... by gojomo on Thursday May 26, 2011 @04:09PM (#2589230)
D'oh! Overlooked that in my quick-read (or seeing as how I chose the same 'prune' word, only noticed it subconsciously).

Still an important enough point to pull out for highlight here; I should have used a direct quote.

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