[wp-forums] Post editing and removing posts

[ipstenu at ipstenu.org]

Wild. I didn't know about URLGone.com ... probably because I've never  
had a problem with posting what I do online. I mean it's already  
there, and a forum post has never had an adverse effect on my page  
rank or popularity (or lack there of ;) ... ).

That may not be a bad idea, though.  Looking at the site, the fact  
that 'Leave blank for a permanently shortened url!' is the default  
setting makes me bet most folks will cheerfully ignore that and be mad  
at THAT.

Quoting esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>:

> on 15/11/2010 14:38 Mika A Epstein said the following:
>> I suspect Otto's point is for crying out loud, people, if you don't
>> want the link public, DON'T POST IT!
>>
>> A serious lack of common sense about how the net works.
>
> So should we recommend that people use something like  
> <http://www.urlgone.com/>? As there are times when we need to see  
> the site/problem in order to help them and, from what I recall,  
> bit.ly links are permanent.
>
> I'm all in favour of discouraging post editing to remove urls if at  
> all possible. Far too much extra work if people catch on that  
> long-term editing is available.
>
> Mel
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