May 28, 2008
I. Am. An. Idiot.
I'm very sorry if you left a comment or replied to a comment I left you and it's missing.
You see, I deleted a bunch.
The deletions were not malicious or in a fit of temper or anything else; I was simply not in "Profy" mode, must have thought that I was in my email (since I use Gmail nearly exclusively, a delete is never a real delete unless I'm in my Junk or Trash tags), and just hit delete several times over until I realized what I had done. A few emails back and forth with our CTO here at Profy later, I discovered that the comments were really, most sincerely, deleted.
It really shouldn't be that big a deal, right? After all, it wasn't like I deleted TONS of them; it was only a few. But as I discovered during the process of writing an article about comments and intellectual property definitions on the web, I realized that as Netizens, we are very attached to our comments and posts. I love going back in time on my personal blog to see what I was thinking 5 and 6 years ago; when life was different. I also like going back and reading the comment threads. I don't think (aside from spammers) that we take the time to leave comments on something unless we truly care about the subject and the conversation. It may be merely vanity, but I LIKE knowing what people are saying about something that I've written. Does it provoke a new line of thinking in someone? Do people think I don't have a clue in the world? Humans are communal creatures, and we want to know that our thoughts have value, whether it's receiving comments on a blog piece or replies to comments that we've left for an author. Beyond the idea of physical ownership of those comments is the emotional attachment.
You see, I deleted a bunch.
The deletions were not malicious or in a fit of temper or anything else; I was simply not in "Profy" mode, must have thought that I was in my email (since I use Gmail nearly exclusively, a delete is never a real delete unless I'm in my Junk or Trash tags), and just hit delete several times over until I realized what I had done. A few emails back and forth with our CTO here at Profy later, I discovered that the comments were really, most sincerely, deleted.
It really shouldn't be that big a deal, right? After all, it wasn't like I deleted TONS of them; it was only a few. But as I discovered during the process of writing an article about comments and intellectual property definitions on the web, I realized that as Netizens, we are very attached to our comments and posts. I love going back in time on my personal blog to see what I was thinking 5 and 6 years ago; when life was different. I also like going back and reading the comment threads. I don't think (aside from spammers) that we take the time to leave comments on something unless we truly care about the subject and the conversation. It may be merely vanity, but I LIKE knowing what people are saying about something that I've written. Does it provoke a new line of thinking in someone? Do people think I don't have a clue in the world? Humans are communal creatures, and we want to know that our thoughts have value, whether it's receiving comments on a blog piece or replies to comments that we've left for an author. Beyond the idea of physical ownership of those comments is the emotional attachment.
Posted by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira at 09:53
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LOL Louis. That was actually copied from the email I sent to Markus. I should know better! I was hoping that they were just marked as deleted in the db, but no... they were gone. It was like I suddenly forgot how to use the dashboard.
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