If your post would end up like that in a day, please just refrain from posting it, in any community, or use a throwaway. It is very destructive, especially since all and every comment also becomes unreachable with it.

Sincerely,
With all due respect,
Your Lemmy neighbor

I’m fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it’s not just me.

Do not bomb your communities, please.

I promise, I’ll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

  • Lasherz@lemmy.world
    502·
    15 days ago

    When you devote 30 minutes to a detailed answer about something you’re passionate about and refresh to find “permanently deleted”

    • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
      13·
      14 days ago

      Or if you’re like me and see a thread, be all like “Oh, that could be interesting, I’ll check that later,” and put your phone away for a few hours, and then, when you finally get to check the thread again, and refresh it just to be up to date, you see it’s been permanently deleted…

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    201·
    15 days ago

    Firmly agree. If I notice a trend on posts being deleted after posting, I just block the user so I don’t see the new posts. Nothing is more annoying then putting a bunch of effort responding to someones question, especially tech related, just for them to nuke the post later on so it was all for nothing.

    Thankfully though, it’s few and far between on the communities that I usually look at, so I have not noticed it a whole lot.

  • tyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    14 days ago

    Lemmy will never be the resource reddit became if everyone just deletes their info.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 days ago

    Sure but then I get someone making an unnecessarily critical and destructive comment and my post turns to shit and nobody participates anymore because they’re too fixated on the comment and start down voting the thread instead.

    I recently made a post on AskLemmy and the third guy commenting just started casting doubts on what I shared even though it was an anecdote and it’s something that happens where I live. My story’s sole purpose was to generate interest and get people commenting. But nooo, I can’t do that because what happened is inconceivable in their country so it must be impossible everywhere else! Lemmy always knows best. Fuck it, nuked.

    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      If it makes you feel any better, I’ve had this experience too, and also since I turned on the feature in Voyager to track votes per user, you’re at a +7 with me

  • blunderworld@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago

    Holy shit THANK YOU. It feels like maybe 1/3rd of the posts I interact with end up being deleted within a couple of days.