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Comment by DyslexicAtheist | Hacker News Reader

yikes, what happened here?

/r/rust mod here, strcat asked us to remove the thread in order to keep it from being associated with his real name in Google search results etc. In order to keep the useful discussion in that thread from being lost entirely I created the archived version seen above, with his real name redacted.

Hang on a very very large second here.

I thought you couldn't edit post titles on reddit, and especially not 3 years ago.

Please please clarify.

Context:

  From       Title           ID      Date
  github.io  "[strcat]"      2u1dme  Thu Jan 29 02:39:34 2015 UTC
  reddit     "Daniel Micay"  2u1dme  Thu Jan 29 02:39:34 2015 UTC

It's exactly the same post.

EDIT: This is now at 0 points. If I have missed something or misunderstand I welcome clarification. Thanks very much!

Check the URL of the archived thread.

Okay, I've done that. The only thing I can think of to specifically look at is the ID fragment. I see the same ID in the archived thread on reddit.com and the archived thread stored on github.io (I'm not sure which source to disambiguate "archived thread" to).

My point was/is that the threads are identical, and given the different titles points to an supposedly-impossible ability to change thread titles. This is very interesting to me.

In case I'm [still] missing the point you're trying to get at. Further clarification and patience is appreciated.

he explained the point. The archived copy has been redacted, the whole reason the archive exists (and the original deleted) is because its impossible to redact the information on reddit while leaving the rest of the post intact.

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