Somebody pointed out that the person might be afraid they gave so much info that their post gets de-anonymized - but IMO people afraid of that shouldn’t post on public forums to begin with.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t make sense, either. There’s no rational reason to delete a thread after the question has been answered.
Even if it wasn’t actually a person but was an AI agent asking questions so it can scrape the data from the answers, there’s no real utility in deleting the posts after receiving responses. It just seems so weird.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not that complicated. New user gets an answer, feels like the post isn’t relevant anymore, and deletes it without thinking.
Still a massive dick move, but still.
tburkhol@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Could they be astroturfing, looking for a specific solution to fill search engines with their own product placement, then deleting because most of the comments are other FOSS solutions?
Companies already do it with Reddit, so it’s not surprising, their error is to think that the niche open source federated alternative to reddit would make their bs work
solrize@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It might be to stop the damn notifications you keep getting whenever anyone posts to a thread you started. Also it’s reasonable to think discussion forums are in some sense ephemeral. If you want a persistent store of knowledge, try Wikipedia. Lemmy could also host wikis if it’s worthwhile, like reddit does.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Sure, that’s why Google made an exclusivity deal with wikipedia instead of reddit to train their ai for any organic user level reviews/discussions on anything.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no. everything shpuld be petsisted, which is why i donate to the internet archive.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Even misinformation? CSAM?
uuj8za@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This is 100% wrong. This isn’t Discord or chat. People expect forums to appear in online search results, i.e. be persistent.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have no idea what you are using to browse Lemmy because the only notification I get is a number next to my profile icon in web browser or Thunder. And that’s often delayed by several days so I frequently look through my own old posts to find replies because don’t get reliable notifications.
I don’t think most people think of this to be ephemeral. First of all, this replaces reddit and we all know how valuable reddit was when searching for issues. Second of all, this is also kind of like forum, and not many people would think of a forum to be ephemeral. Not everything save-worthy has to be wikipedia kind of stuff.
tburkhol@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Uncheck “Send notifications to Email” in your settings. Or get a 3rd party app with a notifications setting.
solrize@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I don’t get email notifications, but that number next to the icon changing is annoying. I have a few old responses that I’ve left “unread” on purpose, so I’m reminded to get around to dealing with them (look at some url or whatever). When the number changes, that means there are actual new responses, which after a day or two tend to be useless depending on the topic. So I’d rather shut them off.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If it’s easier to delete the post guess what people will do.