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Vladimir_Nesov comments on So, I guess the site redesign is live? - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: CronoDAS 22 June 2011 04:51AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 22 June 2011 09:49:04PM *  2 points [-]

You could "retract" things anyway by editing them (adding a statement of retraction with actual reasons). Striking through all the text is a bad default for how to do that, makes the original text unnecessarily inconvenient to read (it's a better default than removing, but the use case is different).

Comment author: matt 23 June 2011 02:34:59AM 3 points [-]

You're right that the original power to edit and retract in plain english existed. In practice, deletion was fairly common, which meant that broken conversations were fairly common. I hope that the new delete button will make retraction more common than edit-to-delete-content.