Do You Ever Delete Posts You Have Published?
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chihuahuazero May 16, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I haven’t deleted anything either, as I remember.
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When I see that a post has been deleted minutes after it went up, it dumbfounds me.
TheJackB May 16, 2012 at 5:45 pm
 @chihuahuazero Periodically I have posted something with a glaring error and then hurriedly taken it down so that I could fix it, but most of the time that doesn’t happen.
I wonder if that is what has happened to some of the posts you have seen.
jasonkonopinski May 16, 2012 at 4:43 am
I haven’t deleted any – even the really early stinkers – but there are *plenty* that I haven’t published, taunting me. 🙂 Â
TheJackB May 16, 2012 at 9:32 am
 @jasonkonopinski I know how that goes. I have a number that taunt me too. Hate that.
jasonkonopinski May 16, 2012 at 10:24 am
 @TheJackB Mostly they’re the cathartic braindumps that’ll be sitting in limbo forever.Â
african mango supplement May 15, 2012 at 11:24 pm
I haven’t deleted anything. I just started and its nice if you’re not deleting, so you will see the history and progress of your blog. Thank you.
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TheJackB May 16, 2012 at 9:31 am
 @african mango supplement I generally don’t allow free ads to run on the blog.
Jens May 15, 2012 at 10:21 pm
I have deleted one post. And I probably shouldn’t have deleted it. The only reason I did, was that so many people complained about. It was a review of a business. And the thing is that I reviewed it about four years ago, and I was very negative. The business had changed a lot (according to the people that contacted me), and my review was still at the top of Google 🙂
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I didn’t want to keep receiving all the complaints, and to me, this post was just a random post I wrote many years ago.
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But, I have thought a lot about deleting old posts, posts that are not really related to what I write about anymore. The reason I haven’t is that they are evidence of how things used to be in the past, and that might be interesting some day – who knows right?
TheJackB May 16, 2012 at 9:31 am
 @Jens For a long time I didn’t delete anything because I liked having the chronicle of my life and I thought that it would be of interest.
But lately I have come across many posts that are tied into broken links that prevent me from really seeing what happened. So those posts I have gotten rid of, but I still don’t like it.
Jens May 16, 2012 at 10:37 am
 @TheJackB I still haven’t checked my blog for broken links. That’s on my list of things to do. Did you use a plugin for that?
TheJackB May 16, 2012 at 11:04 am
 @Jens I did. I have to check the name, it is something like Broken Link checker. I use the free version.
Jens May 16, 2012 at 11:47 am
 @TheJackB interesting. Do you remember if it also checks the comments (like commentluv links)?
TheJackB May 16, 2012 at 11:52 am
 @Jens I think it does.