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    301 year ago

    I learned in SQL class that you never ever hard delete data when there is any alternative. On Facebook and Twitter you get a whole month to change your mind before your account can’t be recovered.

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        51 year ago

        I’ve wondered about this quite a bit. If I were a fucking asshole like spez and wanted to defeat edit/delete scripts, I would set it so there’s 2 entries, one is the original comment and a second column for an edited value. Everytime there’s an edit update the 2nd one.

        I had the idea to start all my comments with gibberish, and then edit with my actual comment, but that got a little tedious lol.

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        21 year ago

        Depending on how their database schema’s designed, editing might not actually help. Some designs are made to track every change, so edits will just end up being a row in the database, and lookbacks can be super easy. For example, you might just have to ask the database to give you what a comment looked like at a given time.

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      71 year ago

      Bruh I logged into my Spotify account and it reactivated the Facebook account I had requested be deleted a more than a year prior

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      41 year ago

      AWS is the same. Literally unable to delete an account as you have to wait for 30 days after terminating the account.