Default was 86400 minutes (60 days), now 2880 minutes (2 days) to edit or delete a post.
Unfortunately the mass deletions resulted in what looked like spam, confusing and broken conversations.
Everything you put on this site and the internet is public and backed up, from live RSS feeds (+1 to our RSS users :)) to my daily backups and live-mirror which will be public soon. This makes it more difficult to ‘take back’ a post when I’m going to provide it for the world X other ways. The older (and more involved) a post is, the bigger the mess post deletion. As of now no major edits happen after 1 day, so 2 days is more than enough and is manageable from this end.
If one really really wanted their name off of the live sites I would be open to changing the author of their posts to ‘anonymous’.
FYI, we have a wiki feature which allows edits for things like SOPs that require modification after 2 days.
I will always make an exception for Personally identifiable information - The public backups will never include IPs or the likes, If you accidentally post a picture with your address in it, I’d dig it out for ya but the internet (see RSS above) still knows.
I’m open if any of this sounds unreasonable.