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[–] Serotia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Also its easier to claim a screenshot was photoshopped, which is kind of hard to disprove without visiting the live page. And even if you visit the page there's a chance that it's been changed...

(I especially love when people make redundant archives of a page, because in the case of ninja edits you can use archives to try to pin down the timeframe in which the edit occurred! Anyone who needlessly makes another archive of a page, I consider to be doing future researchers a great service.)

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[–] LoveDj ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, it's a silly OCD thing I was thinking about once (redundantly making several archived versions of a website because I don't like wasting space, etc.)

Anyone who needlessly makes another archive of a page, I consider to be doing future researchers a great service.) But I guess it's a good thing then! I'll just re-create an archive then in that case instead of revisiting the same archive link I made!

I honestly wonder how those websites that archive get around the legal issues that could arise, and the possible copyright stuff.

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[–] Serotia ago 

I'll admit that unless changes are occurring live, I do find the day 1 mass redundant archives to be a little wasteful and cluttering from a research, "which of these will actually help me?" perspective, but if there's even a day between the archives I really appreciate them. Once I was looking for archives of a long-dead website, which only exists on archive.is as indirect archives of the wayback machine, so they all have the same content. The archive on the wayback machine was* taken down though, so I found the extra archive.is copies interesting because they slightly narrowed down the timeframe in which the deletion occurred. (*Its back-ish now, so maybe it was a bug? The experience still taught me that different timestamps can potentially be useful, even if I don't expect them to be at the time).

I will consider the space side of things too though, and maybe start giving myself a minimum timeframe between the previous copy of a page and any new copies I create.