On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 at 15:39:13, Xyne wrote: > On 2014-07-25 19:49 +0200 > Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > >On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 at 18:42:22, Xyne wrote: > >> On 2014-07-25 11:31 +0200 > >> Lukas Fleischer wrote: > >> > >> >This allows Trusted Users to check whether a user posted a politically > >> >incorrect comment, even if he already deleted it. > >> > >> > >> Why keep "deleted" comments? How long are they kept? > >> > > > >Yes. Forever. > > Is there some technical reason for not deleting comments? If not, please > (re)consider actually deleting them. Keeping them is simultaneously a waste of > bits and a bit creepy. >
Obviously, there is no way to check whether a user insulted someone else (or misbehaved in some other way) and deleted the comments afterwards if we remove them immediately. Some users even suggested to drop the comment deletion feature [1], although for slightly different reasons. I personally think it is fine to keep deleted comments and only show them to Trusted Users -- they are trusted after all. Regarding the "waste of bits" argument, I would have guessed that the amount of deleted comments is negligibly small but it turns out that these comments account for ~10% of all AUR comments. So maybe we should clean them up occasionally? [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14840
