I’m a few days further from responding than I would have liked - in transit for moving, so excuse the lack of a more full response.... BUT I agree with your ideal here:

But once you have put something out there, and found it to be colossally wrong (like my original post), the responsible thing to do (which news agencies have been doing for centuries), is publishing a retraction of clarification or even apology... but they leave the original article in place.

That doesn’t always take place here, sadly, though I’d like to think that’s the expectation for Hubski over Reddit. Maintain the information or add to it, never detract or outright redact the original piece. Which you’re exemplifying here.

Maybe you’re being more a realist here than I am... Hubski’s de-activate is the “oh shit” nuke button for when you don’t want to get doxx’d, not the “oh shit, ya got me, time to make a new account and no one will know,” in my eyes. And... generally in a community like this... people tend to spot that behavior/inconsistency one way or another.

Anywho, pretty sure this thread closed down. Wanted to respond in kind when I could nonetheless. Hope you’re having a good start to your weekend, goob.