Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time

Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by throwaway665544 on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:08PM (#39232021)

If you have nothing to hide, why not make all story and comment removal history publicly visible, like Wikipedia edits.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by dang on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:50PM (#39234167)

That would create a bureaucratic nightmare for no significant gain.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234189 for a longer answer; and also krapp's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232795, which makes a similar point.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by skeaker on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:57PM (#39232688)

Just enable showdead if you want to see all of that. It's 99% botspam.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by krapp on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:06PM (#39232795)

That would create one more thing for people here to complain about. People here would just accuse the mods of faking the mod log to hide their "real agenda" whatever that is.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by paulnpace on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:15PM (#39232892)

Wikipedia can and does vaporize edits.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by formerly_proven on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:46PM (#39233243)

I don't think revdel can actually fully delete a revision, there's always at least a revision entry left, perhaps with no user name or summary.

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Re:Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated ... by jethro_tell on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:13PM (#39232873)

Lol, OK, throwaway665544

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