You're not entirely free to edit any node you posted because they'll physically stop you. Removing 'your' content is considered vandalism and they'll lock your account to prevent it.

As for the gift aspect... I'm not exactly handing out treasure here but I'm not talking about deletion anyway. It just follows that, if given the option to claim AM comments, the opposite might be something someone might want to do. Until this thread, I never even considered it but the link I posted contains links to several other people asking for the same thing over the years and not getting it.

I don't use social media but PerlMonks doesn't even compare to "aggressively proprietorial" sites when it comes to content ownership. After deleting your account, LinkedIn will remove everything within 24 hours, Facebook hides it immediately and gives you 30 days to change your mind before deleting everything as does the site formerly known as Twitter. Reddit, the site I consider the worst on the web, doesn't delete your content automatically but removes the username and other information from everything you don't remove yourself which you are free to do by hand before deleting the account. Even non-commercial, greater good systems like the Wayback Machine allows you to request outright content removal.

I guess I'm suggesting Reddit's interpretation of what a deleted account means: full disassociation from the content having originated from a single account. Anyone concerned with their privacy would expect at least that but I wasn't asking for my account to be removed. Maybe I should be, given the response, but my comment wasn't a request to have <quote type="air">my</quote> stuff removed either. Giving people the option to have their content attributed to Anonymous Monk seems much more easy going than the current options.

In reply to Re^2: Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by SankoR
in thread Feature Request: Abandon content to Anonymous Monk by SankoR

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