wedrifid comments on A question of rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2009 10:11:11PM 9 points [-]

I am reluctant to agree with the aforementioned policy because I do not want to lose the comments on such posts. There have been cases where a '<= 0' post has been flawed but the replies have provided worthwhile insight into the topic being covered. I often search for things I can remember reading months in the past and it would frustrate me if they were not there to be found.

I like the sound of the (unfortunately code requiring) idea of having them not visible in the side bar.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 December 2009 06:37:42PM 0 points [-]

The mechanism I have for post removal wouldn't prevent the comments from being visible if you knew the old link.

Comment author: wedrifid 14 December 2009 07:22:02PM 1 point [-]

Would search still work? (I assume it probably would...)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 December 2009 07:35:00PM 0 points [-]

I don't know. I too assume it probably would.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 December 2009 08:04:26PM 0 points [-]

If there's a link to it from somewhere, Google ought to index it and keep it indexed. A quick google returned a discussion suggesting that orphan pages with no incoming links will eventually be de-indexed (assuming the bot had the time to index them before they got orphaned), though it might take a long time. It's from 2004, though, and Google has revamped their systems plenty of times afterwards.