I have noticed this is occuring more and more. It is a problem that started to crop up on reddit but now I’m seeing here more often. Do you not want other people to benefit from the answers you received? This community is kind of pointless if you just get an answer and wipe it from the web.
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I did it because I never got an actual helpful answer anyway. I couldn’t disable replies and people kept responding with either the same thing or blatantly wrong/unhelpful answers and I was tired of being bothered by it.
oh yeah, I had to start doing that on reddit near the end, too. I’d forgotten that
removing the “disable inbox replies” feature was such a stupid move
Yeah, this has always bugged me too. It slows down our accumulation of old content, which is one of the big draws of platforms like this. People love to go to reddit for answers to questions originally asked years ago, and they could potentially use Lemmy for that too, if our backstock got substantial enough. As a much smaller userbase, though, we kinda need every thread we can get.
When you find them, go check the user’s other posts and comments.
I find that often, they have deleted all their content and sometimes even their account. This is especially the case in Reddit where people seem to have gotten enough
Reddit was trying to sell your questions and replies. Many people, including myself, said fuck that and mass changed or deleted our data/comments.
It was prior to that. I left around that same time.
Well that’s when I deleted mine.
Fine for reddit, but please don’t do that on Lemmy, it works different over here, we don’t have one single CEO that decides to fuck over all the users.
Edit: I deleted 10 years of History with over 100.000 comments. Fuck Reddit
Well I’m sure reddit didn’t start out with that in mind either. Well see in a few years I guess.
What would really help is a way to disable replies… (Edit: meant the notifications)
I don’t make posts here, but I’ve hesitated posting big news articles before, because people keep making top level comments days/weeks later and they keep coming in as notifications.
Some people on here desperately feel the need to reply back to every notification, so I’m assuming a lot of the deletes are just people who feel satisfied with the answers they already got
I’m against disabling replies entirely, but for disabling notifications. Once a post is out there and other people are participating in the conversation, it’s not just yours anymore.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. Just didn’t say it right
I wipe all posts from every account that gets banned.
Just out of spite usually.
yep. if you don’t want me here because I said “I’m surprised more nazis aren’t getting jumped tbh” because it “glorifies violence”, fine, I’ll go, and I’ll take all my positive contributions with me
I’ve lost a lot of good stuff on my old reddit account. some of it just crap, but some of it was rather well appreciated stuff. and now it’s just another thread of <deleted>
Had my post removed for “off topic” in self hosting because it was about open wrt and they claimed it was a hardware question when in fact open wrt is software.
I hate communities that are hyper strict about pointless things about that. The post volume is rarely enough to justify that level of filtering. Besides, hardware is definitely related to self hosting.
In reddit, I’d discovered that some people would karma-farm that way…
Annoying-as-hell, when the deletion of a post doesn’t delete the karma-farmer’s accured-from-that points, in my eyes: it distorts things in favor of the machiavellians…
No idea how these instances deal-with that kind of thing…
( I’ve not deleted any post, after getting an answer: just trying help with info : )
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Given how AI is scraping the web for training, I can appreciate how some people might not want to leave their personal data around for some company to use without their permission.
This is just a speculation on my part, as I have no data to back that assertion up. So, grain of salt and all.
That’s actually a moot point on Lemmy as it only guarantees regular users lose convenient access. And there is ZERO presumption of privacy everywhere on the fediverse. The system is not designed for that, even when it comes to deleted posts.
I get that. I also wonder how many Lemmy users get that?
I didn’t delete it, the mods apparently didnt like the answer (or question) and ‘shadow’ deleted it? I wasnt given a reason for its deletion.
Depending on the question,people do not want people they personally know to identify them.
Shouldn’t be asking on the fediverse at all, even if you delete a post there is zero presumption of privacy on the fediverse. It’s not at all designed for that.
I don’t disagree. But some people see it that way.
I just assume they got a few answers they didn’t like and didn’t want to get any more negative feedback.
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