Moment of clarity? Embarrassed? Lost control of an antagonistic agenda?
I suggested an anime the other day and got downvoted and berated for it not fitting their criteria. Rather than argue my case I just deleted that shit. I love the occasional anime, but holy shit the fans…
I write dumb stuff sometimes. Doesn’t matter why, I just screw up.
Most of the time I’ll leave the post up. Whatever. I’ll live.
Sometimes everyone and their cousin needs to reiterate over and over that they disagree with what I wrote. I get tired of the notifications, yeah I know I screwed up, but everyone wants a gold star by their name for telling me so.
So I delete it. Enough is enough.
Ya or when you are the voice of logic and reason in a thread that’s about a highly emotionally charged topic.
If you suspect they might, always quote reply.
I do it when I realize it’s a comment I don’t want to be associated with. Maybe I realized I was being tone deaf, maybe I realized I was being monumentally stupid, maybe I thought I was being clever until the post posting clarity showed me the light, and maybe I realized I was wading into a fight I don’t want to actually fight.
I get the people who prefer edits, and if I think an edit is valuable I’ll make it. I’m very much not afraid to edit. But if there’s little interaction with something and I realize it’s something I’d rather not have said, well then I just delete it.
Oh god the amount of times I have done the same is embarrassing, maybe I should start deleting them too.
Could be shame
It’s shame avoidance, can’t cope
If it’s something egregiously wrong, I prefer to edit it and own up to my stupidity.
If it’s my considered opinion being downvoted, then I take the downvotes and backlash. I stand my ground, unless someone makes a point that enlightens me to consider a different position. Then, I’ll edit the comment to that effect.
The rare times I delete a post or comment is usually because I’ve posted something demonstrably false that I realized after posting it, or I replied to the wrong comment.
We are alike in every detail here. Good on ya.
Ya I delete a comment or post when I realize I received bad info and are spreading it. If you think you aren’t susceptible you are part of the problem.
Better to leave the comment up, and edit it when you realize the problem.
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The Earth is FLAT!EDIT: Well, apparently, I was misinformed and dupe by idiots. Mea culpa.”And the idiots aren’t even the problem, it’s the disingenuous experts. When your a voice of authority and are spreading misinformation, well that’s the end of humanity.
I delete my comments from time to time to cover up the fact that I was horrendously wrong and somewhat stupid for even thinking it. It’s hugely embarrassing and it takes away from my status as an “internet genius”. /s
I delete stuff if I was objectively wrong. If people just disagree with me I’ll leave it up, I don’t care about fake internet points.
I deleted everything on Reddit because fuck Reddit, website doesn’t deserve my content. I even got dms complaining about nuking my solutions to questions in gaming and the blender subreddit, but I just told them to leave reddit too lol.
I even got dms complaining about nuking my solutions to questions in gaming and the blender subreddit, but I just told them to leave reddit too lol.
Tell em the answers are here now ;)
I used to do this when I was on reddit from 2011-2026.
I did it because I’m a narcissist. Like actually, I was diagnosed with NPD in 2023. People disagreeing with me physically hurts. I don’t know how to explain it but when a person has a worldview disagreeing with me, it feels like an attack on me and causes this kind of ache in my chest.
Everything just gets translated to, “Oh, you think this way? God, you’re fucking stupid! I HATE YOU!” We cannot just disagree because my opinions and worldviews are so intrinsically linked with me. My whole world is me looking into a mirror and seeing nothing but my face. If it reflects something else, that’s frightening.
I obviously am trying to be a better person now and don’t react the same anymore, but in the day that is why I would do it.
Damn. Having that knowledge must be some kind of a relief, isn’t? I don’t mean the diagnosis, obviously, but it must have taken up so much of your energy.
Being a narcissist sound surprisingly like have zero inward confidence and self esteem every time I hear it described. Is that at all accurate?
I’d say so. Deep down, I don’t actually like myself. I’ve said before narcissism is like scar tissue or armor that limits your “range of emotion.” I’m either angry or feeling absolutely nothing.
I’m sorry to hear that. Thank you for responding and helping me better understand it. I wish you the best in your journey to feel better.
Kudos on you for trying to better yourself!
Thank you for writing this.
I’m from the neurodiverse crowd so while I might not be able to relate completely or agree, I can completely relate to the situation of people telling me they understand but behaving in a way that proves they really don’t and really can’t.
Best wishes for your progress!
“karma” farmin’
Some people use this site as a search engine
@ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world Once you obtain your answer, you must fulfill the prophesy and delete this entire post yourself.
95% of the time if I delete a comment it’s because it was either a mistake or I made the comment then I looked through the other comments and realized like half the thread already made the same joke.
