Timeline for Why aren't spam and offensive answers simply deleted from the database?
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| Apr 23, 2013 at 15:48 | comment | added | nhinkle | In essence, it does no harm to save the information, and it sometimes is beneficial to retain it, so there's no benefit to completely removing it. Also, it would take more coding (and thus more levels of places to introduce bugs) to have a "regular" and a "permanent" delete. | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 14:53 | vote | accept | Karan | ||
| Apr 23, 2013 at 14:51 | comment | added | Karan | Hmm, while reading the first part of your answer I was thinking that keeping the evidence can still be achieved by making the posts visible to mods only, but the last bit of your answer does explain why it might make sense for 10K+ users to also have access to such posts. | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 14:46 | history | answered | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |