HN Comment Deletion
Users express frustration over Hacker News' policy preventing comment deletion after a short time or replies, sharing regrets about past posts and wishing for better edit or removal options.
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comment as been deleted, as much as HN can let me...
You are right, my apologies. I don't think deleting comments is allowed but I'll keep this in mind in the future
Sorry, you're right. I'd delete but it looks like HN won't allow me to do so now.
oh man you can't delete comments? another reason why i shouldn't be on hackernews. nice work making something sorry for bein' a jerkk
Maybe HN should get in the 20th century and allow users to delete their comments.
Ironically IIUC replying to comments destroys the author’s ability to delete them.
I'm sorry you're upset. I regret my original comment, and trying to remove it, today I found out HN doesn't let users delete comments older than a certain small amount of time.
These were dumb comments for me to make, I wish HN supported deletion at times like these. Oh well.
If you ask hackernews to delete your comment(s), they refuse to do so. Instead, they just set the username of the comment to deleted.
yeah, once somone has commented you can't delete anymore. maybe a mod will see it and manually mark it as duplicate later, otherwise it doesn't really matter