I once paid Slashdot $5 just so I could have access to all of my old comments. In retrospect, taking my own content hostage is one of the few effective ways to get money out of me.

I would pay to download all of my saved links from Hacker News so that I could dump them in a searchable database.

There are so many times I remember seeing something relevant on HN (and sometimes http://searchyc.com doesn't work 'You broke the server').

I haven't examined the Arc source code to see if saved links ages old links out of the db automatically.

This may be the most insightful thing I've read here all week.