I have a weired problem.
I know there are many admins for codeforces. who have the power to delete comments from any blogs if they are improper comments.
I have made few bad comments from my main account about china. I am deeply regret about it as it does not look good in my main account. It paints a bad picture about myself whoever visits my profile.
also I can make a fresh new account and starts using it but in that case I have to loose all the progress and the graph of rating.
Also I am fearful about China. I am into IT and If in any case I have to travel internationally or If I have to go to china in any case I could be in trouble.
I have made those comments 2 years back at that time I was a kid. now Iam more mature and regretting about making those comments and they are stuck with me for my entire codeforces journey with my account.
Why there is no option to delete your comments.
I want my account to be clean. Let me tell you I have not made a single comment on any videos of youtube,facebook or Instagram that is how clean I am. you know the cancel culture in today's world. so I prefer to be clean. once you write anything on internet it will remain there forever.
I want to know how can I contact any admin who can help me delete those comments from my main account. If any admin is reading this and wants to help please comment below I will message you from my main account I have to delete just 5 comments.
Why there is no option to delete your comments. __
First of all in the first 2 minutes you delete your comment, Second is why you should write a comment and then delete it? The reasons you said are not acceptable !
you mature over time. you can be influenced by media or social media when you are young so you may make mistake. but those comments are not stuck with my codeforces account. who ever sees my account gets a wrong picture of my mindset which was wrong back then but now I can not correct my mistake by deleting those comments.
I would not label something unacceptable based solely on personal beliefs. I believe that the main idea of this post is similar to that of the "right to be forgotten". You may be interested in reading the following Wikipedia article about it for more context.
A more fundamental problem with deleting comments is their nonlinear structure. It is hard to delete a vertex with multiple children from the middle of the comments tree. One possible compromise solution would be to delete the content of the comment, but then the fact of you publishing a comment would still persist. I would like to hear your ideas on how comment deletion could be implemented.
like it is implemented in other websites like youtube. you can delete comments, you can also edit your comments and people will not be able to see previous comment. If cf implement this feature it will only help everyone, because now people will not need alt accounts to comment. they can do it with their main account and in case of negative feedback they can delete their comments or permanently edit it. I think negative feedback is the main reason people make alt accounts most people feat to post from their main account because of negative feedback.
On YT, if you delete a comment, all of its replies (potentially made by other people) are also deleted. In my opinion, this is an extreme solution, as the content of the replies does not belong to you, and is therefore not yours to delete.
However, I don't know all the legal details of this case, and hence a more detailed investigation is necessary. I would assume that YT conducted some legal research before implementing this feature. Something similar needs to be done by CF team if we want to implement such semantics of comment deletion. Obviously, YT has a bigger legal team than CF (idk if there is such team at all). so all legal-related issues take longer to resolve.
On reddit, the comment is altered to [deleted]. I've also seen some edited comments like this in CF, but people still can see the comments before being edited. It would be nice to have a "delete" function which edits the comment to [deleted] but also removes the previous version of the comment.
Here's an idea: why not retain the comment's content and its subtree, but dereferencing the comment from its author? (For example, if I were to delete this comment this way, the username "Alex12H" to the left of this comment would replaced by a generic "[deleted]" (or whatever) and the comment would disappear from the "comments" subsection of my profile. However, the content itself of the comment in the blog's comment section would remain unchanged.)
it can be exploited to make anonymous comments.
You don't say something is 'exploited' if it's a feature. I don't see how anonymous comments are a problem. If they are positive comments, then that's a neat bonus. If they're negative comments, then it's not really different from registering a temporary fake account as many do now.
I said the word 'exploited' because objective here was to develop delete feature not anonymous commenting. Providing anonymous feature would make negative commentors job easier and might increase negative comments. There are more cons than pros.
I agree with you that this would help trolls, but this feature nevertheless seems useful, if exploitable.
What if
i wonder if in 10 years we will see that the youth has become another silent generation... who has learned that it is dangerous to speak out, that it is dangerous to think differently or be different and that it is dangerous to become famous or to get noticed. who prefer to live out a quiet, indifferent and unremarkable life.