shminux comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 18 January 2013 09:59:49PM 4 points [-]

Did a post purporting to solve the decision theory by srn347 just vanish from the forum, including all the comments? I thought one cannot delete other people's comments.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 January 2013 01:55:08PM *  3 points [-]

This being possible is a known bug.

(I saw a cache of the post on Google Reader; it was a well-known observation elevated to the status of an all-powerful epiphany, and the post was also probably an early draft, since it was missing details mentioned at the beginning, which might be why it got deleted or hidden by the author.)

Comment author: Manfred 19 January 2013 04:05:13AM 0 points [-]

Huh, well apparently one can, if one deletes their own post.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 January 2013 01:35:59PM 1 point [-]

As far as I know, actually deleting a post requires admin access: if you delete your own post, it just removes your authorship notice and de-indexes it from the list of posts, but it's still available if you know the URL. E.g. Roko's ugh fields post is still around.

Comment author: Manfred 20 January 2013 05:07:28PM 1 point [-]

How about moving it to drafts?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 January 2013 05:55:15PM 0 points [-]

Ah, I hadn't thought of that.