[zbentley]

Possibly off-topic: this is why GitHub, and GitLab, are both problematic platforms for online collaboration and community-building.

There was once a list of grievances against this person here https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310. That list is no longer present; it has been redacted, and a reason for that redaction has been posted.

As someone who has zero context for this issue, this makes it very hard for me to understand.

This redaction is not something that can happen easily with source code. Comments and other "metadata" can be edited, permanently and without a view into history. That makes it very hard to trace the genealogy of discussions.

Sure, you can rewrite git history and push, but that's a) less durable, because someone might have a fork/copy of the repo, and b) much less common by convention.

I really don't like the tendency of GitHub/GitLab as platforms to encourage the "facebook style" of content authorship (what you posted is what you posted . . . until someone edits, it, then it never was that in the eyes of recent arrivals).

Edit: I will probably accidentally type markdown into HN comments until the day I die.

[wmf]

OTOH if you build an immutable system it will be exploited for all kinds of bad things as well. Also note that code generally only becomes immutable after it has been reviewed.

[pvorb]

Fortunately, somebody already took a snapshot and there's a way back: https://web.archive.org/web/20170821212745/https://github.co...

[mdip]

That was my first thought. A lot of people in the last several years have learned the hard way that for all practical purposes, the Internet tends to be forever.

Sure, you may not be able to find that really useful utility you once used to parse regular expressions because the author stopped maintaining it, took the web site down and never released the source code[0], but that one time you[1] drank too much and tweeted something embarrassing will be discoverable on Google next to your name for decades after you die.

[0] That's been a bugger of mine for a while -- if anyone knows where Rad Regular Expression Designer went, I'll e-mail you a soda.

[1] Or when someone who shares your name and got arrested for theft (thank God he lives in a part of the country I have never visited).

[antpol]

If only current ICO hype could spawn DAPP alternative to github