Designed to Forget

Most platforms are designed to remember — forever. Every message, every request, every interaction is kept indefinitely, because storage is cheap and data is valuable. Karmyq is built on the opposite instinct: a healthy community, like a real neighbourhood, lets go of what it no longer needs.

Two kinds of forgetting

Karmyq forgets in two complementary ways.

1. It forgets the details of past exchanges

The content of an exchange — the words of a request, the back-and-forth of a conversation — is personal, and it stops being useful once the help is done. So Karmyq forgets it on a schedule:

What	When	How
The free text of a completed request (its title, description, and details)	after ~6 months	Anonymized — replaced with a neutral placeholder
An expired, never-answered request	after ~1 month	Deleted — there's no shared history to keep
The messages in a completed exchange	with the exchange	Anonymized alongside the request

What it keeps is the aggregate: the fact that you helped, the karma you earned, the trust you built. Forgetting the words never touches the numbers — so your reputation stays accurate while the private details fade.

2. It forgets relationships that go quiet

Trust on Karmyq isn't permanent. A connection you built by helping someone gradually weakens if you stop interacting — the same way a real friendship cools if you never call. This isn't a punishment; it's honesty. A trust score should reflect the relationship as it is now, not as it was two years ago. When a bond decays far enough, it's quietly let go.

In Sprint 90 this fading became visible. Relationships now show a decay tier — strong, warm, fading, or nearly forgotten — and the people you're drifting from look perceptibly fainter. When a once-close bond is about to disappear, Karmyq gently nudges you: you used to help each other often — reconnect before it fades.

The Exchange Unit

A request, the match that fulfilled it, and the conversation that went with it are one exchange. Karmyq forgets along that whole unit at once: when a completed request's words are let go, its messages are let go in the same breath. It never half-forgets — the record is either whole or gracefully anonymized, never a confusing in-between.

Why this matters

Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. It means:

• Your past asks don't follow you forever. A hard month you went through is not a permanent record.
• Trust stays truthful. Scores reflect living relationships, not stale history.
• The platform earns its promises. "Designed to forget" is something you can see and verify — read exactly what's kept and what's let go on the What Karmyq Remembers page.

A community you can trust is one that knows how to forget.