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.
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tburkhol@slrpnk.net 1 month agoCould 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 1 month ago
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 month 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 1 month ago
no. everything shpuld be petsisted, which is why i donate to the internet archive.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Even misinformation? CSAM?
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago Holy bad faith Batman.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i had to lookup what the acronym csam meant… c’mon - you know what i mean. i am talking about words, the context of the conversation. but to your first point, if a post had misinformation, backing that up so historians can see and have evidence of the behavior of this time. You can flag it but i think there is a lot of history that is washed away.
but no - i dont mean illegal pictures of children - this post was about deleting help posts.
uuj8za@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Uncheck “Send notifications to Email” in your settings. Or get a 3rd party app with a notifications setting.
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month ago
If it’s easier to delete the post guess what people will do.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago Do something once? Ew.
Do something infinitely? 🥵💦
sounds logical, the biggest logical, even
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
How is it easier to delete a post every time than to set preferences to not be emailed just once, then you never have to again?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Your comment isn’t popular, but we all know the rule: “the best thing needs to be the easy thing”, since people will often choose what’s easy and fast vs what’s ultimately better. We see this in security all the time (hello-oo NPM).
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