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hassy
As a user I should be able to tell a website that I want it to forget something I'm putting on it after a while. Nothing complicated, say a default setting of one year. Not on sites like Posterous or Flickr, but on sites like Facebook, Twitter, even HN.

This isn't likely to happen though without legislation, which is a shame.

nfnaaron
Why not on Posterous or Flickr? Not everyone wants every post or photo to persist.

Or, more practically: if this were convention or law, why would Posterous or Flickr be exempt?

BTW I like this idea.

arockwell
Deleting information posted publicly isn't practical. Your posts are likely to be archived in numerous places (e.g. google cache or archive.org).
hassy
> Why not on Posterous or Flickr?

Sure, some people would want that. I'd use the setting on Facebook, maybe on Twitter too, but not on my Posterous.

nfnaaron
The HN title is different enough from the actual title to mean almost completely the opposite.