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.
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 (especially legit new users) 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.
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!
Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.
Besides which, I find the expectation that people should create an account and use that in perpetuity very frustrating.
I have a bunch of accounts and change according to my mood. Nothing nefarious or antisocial, I just don’t want a big silo of comments. My accounts are not an extension of my identity.
I didn’t say I had a problem with any of that. But spinning up a burner, posting, and deleting everything afterward takes other people’s conversations with it (and those don’t currently come up in search results because the post is deleted). Granted that’s a platform limitation, but it is what it is. Posting from various alts but leaving things intact…go for it.
Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.
That’s part of my complaint against the ones doing that “hit it and quit it” bullshit; it makes people wary of interacting with new accounts.
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).
Happy cake day ptz!
Gracias!
Happy cake day!
they do it all the time on reddit, i have no problems with it. its only a problem when they know they are wrong and leave it up to stir shit up.
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
Me reading my posts from a week ago: “Fucking hell, I used to be so cringe back then!”
It’s that quick for you? I either immediately cringe, or it takes years to fester in my brain and then suddenly it’s my brain tripping me up with “remember that stupid comment you made to this person years ago? CRINGE! CRINGE FOR ME, MINION!”
I tend to do the much more efficient system of writing an entire essay to then decide to delete it before posting.
I recognize that strategy. I’d be typing out an entire epistle, only to delete it all in the end, because I figure I wouldn’t add anything to the discussion, or I don’t feel good enough to comment on something :)
user deleted their post
/sorry I had to
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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.
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 …
I get “posts” and “comments” or “replies” confused all the time. You are not alone!
That’s exactly what happened lol
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 submit a comment that’s too jaded and cynical that I don’t want to expose others to after some hindsight.
Half the time, it’s because I don’t read the original comment closely enough and realize that my point no longer makes sense, but I usually only do this if it’s less than a minute or two after posting.
That makes sense for comments, but what about posts to a community?
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.Dammit, he deleted that one? I thought I gave a pretty good reply… although, yes, I sided with her, too.
Your answer was really good! But yeah, he deleted that post.
Thank you!
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 :)
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Lets see if I can still comment on your deleted post though :)
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If you are talking about posts where people lay out their problems and ask for advice, it is probably to avoid getting doxed.
Ah yes, why didn’t I consider that? That’s indeed very much a possibility.
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Well I was going to explain but
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[baleeted]
FLAGRANT SYSTEM ERROR
EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!!
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.
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
I gotta be honest. Idk how there isn’t a removededit for lemmy yet.
5mb tool to delete comments. Also available as an .exe
Feels like smashmouth_heynow.mp3.exe all over again lol
