memorizingthedigitsofpi

*sighs* Yes, the deletions. Those can be pretty unnecessarily frustrating at times. I have a love/hate relationship with tumblr's "read more" function because of it -- it's great for longer posts, image-heavy posts, or posts containing heavy or spoilery content, but I've also been in situations where I've come across a post that's been reblogged and turned into a really interesting discussion, which obviously made me want to read the full original post, but I couldn't because the original had been deleted. And obviously I think people should have a right to delete things if they'd like to, but also it can make any resulting conversations confusing, difficult to follow, and highly prone to misinterpretation and wank. It's almost like there needs to be a standard of "if the original post is no longer accessible to a new person who happens upon the discussion, then it needs to be brought on to a new post." But also, you can get into a lot of re-hashing of issues that have already been hashed out that way.

Another situation that I've been in was when I was looking to reference a behind-the-scenes fact from something that had been in a twitter thread of similar behind-the-scenes content. I actually got to the thread pretty easily, but the tweet I was looking for wasn't there. Eventually, I found a post where someone had linked to that specific tweet, but what I think happened is that the tweet in the thread right above the tweet I was looking for had been deleted, so the tweets below that one had gotten semi-unlinked from the thread (as in, they were clearly a part of the thread when I had the link to the specific tweet, but when looking at the thread from a link that had gone to the first tweet in the thread, all the tweets after the deleted one weren't there).