Because someone commenting leads to others spending time and effort responding. Deleting the comment breaks the chain. Don't comment if you feel that it's something you might want to delete. Think of commenting as like sending an email, but you get a short window to delete in this place.

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amazingamazing 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you believe the same about search results not being able to be deleted? I also assume this means you disagree with gdpr?

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EA-3167 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you not see the difference between a person volunteering to broadcast a post, vs a bird party scraping the web to index it for searching?

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amazingamazing 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You believe volunteered information must stay on internet forever?

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EA-3167 5 hours ago | parent [-]

If you knew those were the conditions when you joined? Yes.

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amazingamazing 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok. Luckily people who make the rules don’t have such ideas.

	▲	tomhow an hour ago \| parent [-]
		GDPR doesn't require that a participant on a discussion forum must be able to erase their entire history. Article 17(3) covers this. It is reasonable for a user to ask that their posts be anonymized.