I’ve seen this happen a bunch of time now that people just ask a question and it’s deleted a day or so later. Do they delete the question themselves, or is that some automatic thing? If they do it themselves, why?

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Thanks for the great answers so far. Very insightful. Please keep them coming, I’m curious to more points of view.

  • Lightsong@lemmy.world
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    I’ve done it once asking a question. However once I got my answer and I edited my post with “solved with (insert reply from one of comments)” and people still replied with the same answers for a few days with slight variations. I got fed up with notifications and deleted the post.

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    I delete my posts if I make, what I consider, a reasoned response and I get immediately downvoted.

  • To prevent annoying trolls from digging through my post history, mostly. I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow. Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway, the only readership of old comments is AI scrapers trying to steal my words for their algorithm.

    Of course, deleting stuff on Lemmy doesn’t mean actually deleting anything. You can trivially ignore deletion requests as a server and some seem to keep old copies of deleted content.

    There’s no automated way to do it with Lemmy so I’ve written my own automation tool that occasionally runs.

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      5mb tool to delete comments. Also available as an .exe

      Feels like smashmouth_heynow.mp3.exe all over again lol

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow.

      those need to be reported and banned, their replies mass deleted.

      Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway,

      Because we don’t have a proper (or any) system for subscribing to threads. but if I have saved a link for myself for future reference, it’ll be gone!

      I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if people start running instances that disobey deletions

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    Personally the app I use sucks, so I realize I commented on the wrong thread and I delete the duplicate

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      😄

      Yeah that would be a great joke on my part, too. Getting my answers and just deleting the question in a day or so.

      I’m not intending on doing that though. So, if it does happen, it’s not because of something that I did.

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.social
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    I’ve done it a few times over the years. Usually it’s because I’ve written something I thought was funny or insightful but the hive mind disagreed and voted it down or worse. Sometimes I just don’t fit into the social norms.

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    Sometimes I’ll delete a comment if someone’s already made the shitty joke or I’m too stoned and misread the original post, it’s usually the second one tho.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It was with great pain that I recently deleted something like 50 to 100 of my own posts. They were all political. Lots of great discussions. But we live in a time where having the wrong kind of history on social media could make you a target either now or in the future. I’m sure a lot of that is still floating around one way or another but if I can reduce any spotlights on my ass it’s something I felt I had to do.

    Since then I haven’t deleted anything. I try to keep my posts non-political. In my real life I am now focusing on bettering myself. I’ve given up on trying to change the country or anything like that. It can all they to ash. I’ve ran out of fucks to give.

    But hey, I’m contributing on !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online again, so there’s that.

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      You dont use your real name on Lemmy so I dont see why your history matters here. I could understand it on linkedin, which is why its a super cringe platform also, but here? I dont see a problem.

      I like Lemmy because it can be genuine and real, unless posted on a instance that moderates away opinions the moderators dont agree with.

      You can go back and find opinions in my history you wont agree with. But thats because i dont try to look a certain way, and I dont change my opinions to look good to others.

      I think everyone should do the same. Be who you are.

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        What I still post here is still genuine. I’m just biting my tongue about certain topics. No different than one would do while at work.

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          You shouldnt. Post and be downvoted. As long as you are not intentionally trolling anyone, it shows strength of character to stand up for what you believe.

          Its very different from work where you are not free to do what you want, because your entire paycheck is based on going along with the charade. You dont have to do that outside of work. :)

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    Usually (but not always) if a mod removes it, it shows up in the mod log.

    But lots of people don’t get the answer they want and delete it. Part of that is you can’t disable replies. A month from now someone might see this post for whatever reason and you’d get a notification.

    That’s probably playing into it

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      A month I can kind of understand. I let mastodon auto delete my month old posts. But a few days? I don’t know…
      But you’re right, it could be that they didn’t like the answers they got. That does make the most sense. Like that kid who’s dating that Muslim girl, and pretty much all of the reactions sided with her point of view.

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    Can’t reply to Some Amateur’s removed comment, just want to say, I enjoyed your contribution! And that could indeed also be a valid reason

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    Perhaps its something embarassing or potentially very political which they don’t want to remain on the internet forever.

    I guess we can add a rule stating that “By participating in this community, you agree to give permission that all your posts/comments can be archived” like under Creative Commons rules. And have a bot automatically archive it.

    But then again, there’s an argument that this violates privacy.