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?
*edit*
Thanks for the great answers so far. Very insightful. Please keep them coming, I’m curious to more points of view.
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
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.Or they do get the answer they want and now they don’t need to get anymore answers.
I’d then update the post thanking every one for the answers provided, and that you don’t need any more.
For them spaces on the internet are just a question and answer machine - why would they thank us NPCs?
Fair assessment. Thank you, fellow NPC :)
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
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.
It contradicts my current argument
Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they’re done. It’s annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that’s still the case.
Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.
Happy cake day!
You check the age of every account you interact with? Can you see this easy or you’re opening up each account?
I’m the dev of Tesseract.
New accounts have badges that show their age if they’re between 0 and 30 days old (among other tricks up my sleeve)
Ah I saw that In your account, it took me two minutes to load it up because of my shitty internet and partly the connect client so I was sure there’s no way you would check each time.
I wish I could do site wide badges for stuff like that but at the end of the day I only ever recognise the one person who give me the shits on lemmy and I have them flagged haha.
Everyone else I figure is out with good intentions until they prove otherwise
Unrelated to the thread, but love your username (took me a minute to get it)
Also, yeah, love the “good intentions until proven otherwise” attitude. Two years here have nearly beaten that out of me (despite me knowing better).
I agree. It’s annoying and selfish. I often go back to older threads I’ve participated in to see other people’s points of view, to see if maybe I missed something. But to then see “permanently deleted” or words of that effect, that’s just sad. I can’t learn from those. No one can.
OTOH, it’s understandable given the endless apettite tech has for profiling people. The Fediverse is not Big Tech, but Big Tech wants all the data anyway, and given its open nature, it will get it eventually. Temporary accounts are a way to make it a bit harder for Big Tech, at the cost of making it worse for legitimate users.
If the Fediverse had some protection against data greed, maybe less people would be wary of leaving a long data trail. The best it can do so far is using nicknames and multiple accounts.
big tech will just scrape in realtime and at the point you deleted it they have already produced all kinds of profiles about it for you
Good point!
Happy cake day ptz!
Gracias!
I’ll delete my replies when I’ve been eating too many crayons that evening and the reply ended up being dumb as dog shit…
Though, I’d consider deleting my posts now because AI is scouring this place and training on it I almost guarantee.
Which color has the best flavor?
Brilliant Bees brand.
user deleted their post
/sorry I had to
😄
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.
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.
{{{LumpyPancakes}}}
Are you mad, Jo?
No, just crazy. :)
I was giving you a textual hug, if you didn’t know what {{{ }}} means.
Aah that’s kind. I didn’t know that one. Thought it was some sort of formatting gone wrong.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
I sometimes think about what I just wrote after I wrote it. I then go back and read it and then remove it because it was lame.
Makes sense for comments, but for posts to for instance this Sub-lemmy, I mean community?
Sub-lemmy
Technically the term is “community” here.
Subreddits are to Reddit as Communities are to Lemmy.
I realized that after I posted it, and edited it afterwards, but you’re absolutely right, when I typed it, it already felt wrong :)
Well shit, read that title wrong. Moving along …
No worries, mate! I should’ve been more precise in my wording.
Nope, it was very clear and you have no blame. Thanks though!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
Downvotes are not what I’m afraid of. I shouldn’t have to explain this to someone with your username.
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Idk why but when I see deleted by creator I think it’s funny to imagine God personally zapping it from existence but they still leave that so everyone knows it was them
the divine voice of the lord booms down from the heavens: “CRINGE”
a clap of thunder vaporizes the blasphemer where they stand, leaving nought by a smouldering pile of ash
Perhaps Lemmy should offer an option to delete the OP and retain comments?
I would also like to see some of the comments even after the original post is deleted if the post author is ok with leaving them up.
Lack of commitment
