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.
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours 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.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
tburkhol@slrpnk.net 21 hours 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?
solrize@lemmy.ml 20 hours 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.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
no. everything shpuld be petsisted, which is why i donate to the internet archive.
uuj8za@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Also it’s reasonable to think discussion forums are in some sense ephemeral
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 19 hours 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.
dieTasse@feddit.org 20 hours ago
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 20 hours ago
Uncheck “Send notifications to Email” in your settings. Or get a 3rd party app with a notifications setting.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
If it’s easier to delete the post guess what people will do.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.