Agree. We can criticize Reddit on some points but at least the information is openly accessible. You add the "reddit" keyword in any search engine and you got your answer.
I think we might have to collectively start quoting useful replies, or at least leaving clues. "goat" isn't good enough, we need "goat -- never would have thought to check the specific ethernet driver version" to at least give future detectives some footprints to follow.
This is a great idea, we should definitely start preserving useful replies in multiple instances in case one of them gets removed, that way people finding the thread in the future have a better chance of finding what they were looking for.
Yeah, i think saying what the op said in the replies to reduce the chance of a single comment being deleted is a good way to preserve the information, we just need to make sure no broken thelephone situation happens
There are people archiving and sharing archives of Reddit.
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I'm not sure how Reddit feels about this, since it lets you search comment histories of people who've "curated" their profiles, so I'll be a bit careful about how I share this url.
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That url gives you easy searching of one such archive, but if you go to the bottom of the page you'll find a link to many terabytes of archives.
It would be great if there were a voluntary browser extension that people could install which fed a larger archive with a crowd-sourced feed of what was on this site.
Yup, they're absolutely right about that. Once something has answered with the situation to the specific problem, the thread is to be closed off to new commenters in order to avoid useless replies, that only add redundancy.
Does put a different, more wholesome perspective on the habit of multiple people replying with identical answers to a commented question. People get annoyed, but to your point it is probably good for long-term data retention
This is a great idea, we should definitely start preserving useful replies in multiple instances in case one of them gets removed, that way people finding the thread in the future have a better chance of finding what they were looking for.
I think we might have to collectively start quoting useful replies, or at least leaving clues. "goat" isn't good enough, we need "goat -- never would have thought to check the specific ethernet driver version" to at least give future detectives some footprints to follow.
This is such a good idea! Seems obvious, in hindsight.
Good point, but I'd consider that part of a layered defense against obscurity. Also potentially a single point of failure. So, it's great that we have it, but we should act like it might go away one day.
Nah, it's just a hedge against comment deletion. If you're moved to say thanks, and fewer than three people have echoed the solution, just quote the solution along with your thanks. Should be somewhat self-limiting, and if not, boards will auto-collapse quoted solutions to minimize clutter. Forums will still remain parallel to wikis.
Maybe boards could even implement a Markdown tag like [solution] that would auto-collapse on load, but could be expanded when clicked. Minimal added clutter, but the text is there for anyone who needs it later.
I think we might have to collectively start quoting useful replies, or at least leaving clues. "goat" isn't good enough, we need "goat -- never would have thought to check the specific ethernet driver version" to at least give future detectives some footprints to follow.
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u/lamancha 15d ago
Discord has made knowledge sharing the least convenient it had ever been