I'm not even on the Luigi is a hero bandwagon at all, but this is weird. "Fear o...

javawizard · 2025-01-09T06:37:10 1736404630

In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them:

Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.

johnnyanmac · 2025-01-10T14:49:16 1736520556

Wouldn't call myself a nerd, but I was so confused thinking "isn't this what Dumbledore said to Harry when asking about Voldemort?"

Guess it just shows retention of books overrides movies, given that I've consumed both.

palmfacehn · 2025-01-09T09:28:27 1736414907

>JK Rowling Airbrushed From Pop Culture Museum’s Harry Potter Display For “Transphobic Views”

https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

oneeyedpigeon · 2025-01-09T10:15:51 1736417751

Your Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".

palmfacehn · 2025-01-10T03:03:47 1736478227

>Today's best known examples of damnatio memoriae from antiquity concern chiselling stone inscriptions or deliberately omitting certain information from them.

>The term is used in modern scholarship to cover a wide array of official and unofficial sanctions through which the physical remnants and memories of a deceased individual are destroyed.

Certainly not exclusively from official accounts. Not sure what your point here is?

immibis · 2025-01-10T09:21:30 1736500890

Why the scare quotes?

palmfacehn · 2025-01-11T04:32:44 1736569964

The quotes are from the article's title.

kristopolous · 2025-01-09T06:43:41 1736405021

In the 20th century, people theorized about how the transience of digital space will create a mutable history.

We've been living with that now for a few decades. It's still a problem.

throwawaysleep · 2025-01-09T06:29:19 1736404159

Not really. SO probably doesn't want to be dealing with this stuff at all.

edflsafoiewq · 2025-01-09T06:30:09 1736404209

Then they should have simply done nothing.

throwawaysleep · 2025-01-09T06:31:44 1736404304

Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine. I don't think they want to be the Luigi Magione Shrine website either.

Shog9 · 2025-01-09T07:08:16 1736406496

As Evan points out in TFA, this has happened before.

I'll add that it has happened more than a few times.

Past response was to shut down inappropriate behavior in the now (folks rambling on about the person in comments under some programming question, etc.) and let the temporary interest die out on its own.

This time... The response seems to be inviting the Streisand Effect.

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EvanCarroll · 2025-01-13T21:15:36 1736802936

  NOTE TO ALL PERSPECTIVE WHISTLE BLOWERS
  EVEN THE ANNOYING ONES THAT HAVE A LONG
  ESTABLISHED HISTORY OF BEING JERKS:

    YOU CAN REACH EVAN VIA SIGNAL
    281.901.0011.

    OLIVE BRANCH, ETC.

perlgeek · 2025-01-09T11:20:52 1736421652

> Can't do nothing, as his account was being treated as a shrine.

So what. He gets a few upvotes. What's the harm for the users, or the platform?

johnnyanmac · 2025-01-10T14:51:45 1736520705

And? I don't see that as a reason to break CC license.

If you're gonna expunge someone, don't half-ass it.