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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 01:09:31 JST Evan Prodromou

   I swing towards "often".

   I don't think you ever have an obligation to leave words or images you regret anywhere on the Internet. Especially if they hurt someone, there's no point in hurting more people, or hurting the same people again.

   If there's enough of a discussion around the post that you feel like it'd be unfair to remove it, I think it's perfectly OK to replace it with an apology ("I said something I wish I hadn't here") or just "deleted".

   If it's a privacy issue, definitely delete.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 22:41:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • penryu

     @penryu Not that I can remember, no. I did have an occasion a month or so ago where I said something I regretted, deleted it, and the person I said it to posted a screenshot of it over and over again in the thread, to prove that I was a bad person.

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     penryu (penryu@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 22:41:04 JST penryu

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     @evan I do wonder if there's an event that inspired this question?