What is the policy re accesing previously deleted posts and their deletion justifications?

February 6, 2003 1:00 PM

What is the policy re accesing previously deleted posts and their deletion justifications? Is there a listing somewhere ? (Could be good for learning by negative example, although certainly defeats the purpose since accesing previously deleted posts means they have not really been deleted.)
posted by Voyageman to Etiquette/Policy at 1:00 PM (4 comments total)

They were deleted from the front page... the most important page of the site.
posted by Witty at 1:35 PM on February 6, 2003

You can still find them on lofi. I think matt had said previously that he didn't want to archive deleted posts somewhere - you'd end up with people vying to get posts deleted to become King of the Trash Heap.
posted by iconomy at 2:13 PM on February 6, 2003

As for why they were deleted-if one is around long enough you know it when you see it.
posted by konolia at 2:15 PM on February 6, 2003

I was wondering about this myself the other day when I saw the Martian Law thread. The second one, that is. I went back looking for the first, wondering if it had been transformed or that I had succumbed to the influence of evil Martian mind bending machines.
posted by Dick Paris at 8:41 AM on February 8, 2003