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This is obviously a response to a carppost over here, so feel free to read it for his side of the story (wrong).
All this happened due to Kristallmopt, with Aevann asking ex-
what features they'd miss. Seeing deleted comments came up. It was made into an idea of a profile upgrade (purchasable in shop), where every poweruser would be able to see user-deleted comments (jannymopped stuff would remain invisible). It almost happened. I accidentally noticed it in codecel channel and said this:
It was then polled and despite carp trying to argue for it, rejected unanimously. Reasons? We're trying to avoid this site becoming a den of snakes where every turbosperg with 20k 
can go through your profile and find drunkposting that you deleted yourself months ago and use it to dox you. Also we don't want powerusers freaking out over minor shit and overwriting their entire comment history (which does happen more and more, annoyingly for readability of old posts).
This latter part led to a suggestion of making deleted comments just disappear from one's profile, as a way to make schizos less worried. We couldn't actually delete them from our DB entirely, for a variety of reasons, so this was basically just a visual bandaid to calm neurodivergents down a bit. Obviously it would only work if it wasn't public knowledge, so carp's spergout post made it pointless, and the idea has now been abandoned. You'll still be able to see your own deleted comments.
That part isn't a big deal. What is annoying, however, is that carp did argue for the former (bad) idea, while not saying a peep about the latter until the post that he made. Didn't vote against it, didn't say why this would be bad, nothing. Merely came on the site after it was approved and made its implementation pointless. That was supposed to show how our (((oligarchy))) is dysfunctional and we need a benevolent fish dictatorship, because (((oligarchy))) wants to take your features away. Also notable is that throughout that post he tried to gaslight the userbase by claiming that we were doing it to be more like reddit (a position that literally nobody took or would ever take). This was what dominated his entire post.
That's about it. That's all that happened.
TL;DR: Carp is gaslighting you. Nothing will actually change, nothing would have functionally changed anyway.
If you accidentally post information that could get you doxxed you ought to do the smart thing and overwrite it, then delete it. Except that anyone who has access to janny privileges (including hackers) will still have the original version of your deleted-and-overwritten comment and dox you with it. If someone on the mod team is too unhinged and breaks down, if you wrong one of the jannies in such a way that they throw a tantrum against you, if one of the jannies is kicked out and they retaliate against the site, or if we get hacked - you are at risk of being doxxed.
There is no longer any precautions or method to prevent this from happening.
Remember all those times where the site glitched out and people were logged into random accounts, including admin accounts? Imagine if we have that glitch again and someone who is logged into a janny account decides to comb the database for doxxable info.
Governments, agencies, and companies already have regular scandals where the people you are supposed to trust have abused their positions of power and exploit the information they have of you. And that's normal people with jobs and families.
Do you honestly trust jannies of a gay incel cat cult to be less unhinged and neurodivergent?
This site is dedicated to drama. It is inevitable that somewhere down in the future, a janny is going to go apeshit and cause a scandal. Edit logging would turn it from a spectacle into a danger with real life consequences.
Moreover, they also planned on preventing users from seeing their own deleted comments, but would secretly still be able to view them and they were going to withhold this information from the entire userbase. They planned on deceiving every single one of you on your Right to Privacy and what happens to your information / who can see it / how you can control it.
Every single admin except carp are complicit in attempting to rob every user here of the right to know what happens with their data, their ability to control who gets it and who doesn't. Carp was the only one who voted AGAINST this measure, all others voted FOR it and wanted to keep it secret from YOU.
I don't care much about Carp. I don't get the cultish fascination some of you have over him. But:
carpathianflorist is the ONLY person on leadership who took a stand, prevent its implementation, and whistleblow on what would happen to your data. His "spergout" protected you from this invasive policy.
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You neighbors thought anything you posted on the internet was private. We log all that shit, create a profile out of it, and connect all your online identities together.
We see everything, and we don't GAF about "privacy". Stay mad about it.
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