Comment on Question on deleted replies
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It looks like a user deleted their comment, causing the subsequent responses to not be shown. When I view the post from my admin account it’s all still visible to me (see the screenshot below). Though if I view the post from a non-admin account then the deleted comment and all its children are not shown.
I agree that this is weird behavior, but I think it’s by design. In this case I would prefer that Lemmy show everyone the “deleted by creator” note and keep the rest of the comment chain visible. I am not aware of any server or community settings to change this behavior.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It does sound like it’s by design, it’s really frustrating as a user though. I think people should at least be made aware of it and the instance admins get to choose how those comments are handled. That guy’s threads were great and should be shown.
This isn’t relevant to this particular case, but bad actors could control the narrative by using this as a technique. Just say something crazy, wrong, misinformation, etc., it gets challenged and spoken about clearly while other great stuff comes up, bad actor just deletes their comment. Who would bring this up with to see if it could at least be opted in to show replies to deleted comments.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It appears this behavior is fixed in Lemmy 0.19.1. Look at the same post via an instance that has upgraded: https://lemmy.ca/post/12129776
Our instance hasn’t upgraded to 0.19.x yet. We’re waiting for outgoing federation to be fixed: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11532242
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Well that’s good to know and see, thanks for showing that.