Submitted 3 weeks ago by madjo@feddit.nl to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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?
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 :)
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
user deleted their post
/sorry I had to
😄
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?
Sub-lemmy
Technically the term is “community” here.
Subreddits are to Reddit as Communities are to Lemmy.
Well shit, read that title wrong. Moving along …
Sometimes I’ll submit a comment that’s too jaded and cynical that I don’t want to expose others to after some hindsight.
Lets see if I can still comment on your deleted post though :)
🤩
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?
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[still upvoted]
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.
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.
Deleted by creator
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.
Well I was going to explain but
I assume because they didn’t stand by their comment or made a mistake. I misread a title on a post an hour ago. Rather than delete it, I edited and stated the mistake and put strikethrough on the text. I don’t delete the record; I amend it.
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
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My feelings exactly.
I always assumed it was because either deleted because it was a bot post, or they self-deleted because they got down voted and got mad about it.
A bot post is another possibility indeed. I hadn’t considered that.
Causr
Typos definitely can be a reason.
Almost every person I’ve had an argument/discussion with who fires through my past comments to try and find things to use against me when they’re losing has been someone who goes back and deleted all of their comments. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
I've done it a few times over the years. Usually it's because I've written something I thought was funny or insightful but the hive mind disagreed and voted it down or worse. Sometimes I just don't fit into the social norms.
It was with great pain that I recently deleted something like 50 to 100 of my own posts. They were all political. Lots of great discussions. But we live in a time where having the wrong kind of history on social media could make you a target either now or in the future. I’m sure a lot of that is still floating around one way or another but if I can reduce any spotlights on my ass it’s something I felt I had to do.
Since then I haven’t deleted anything. I try to keep my posts non-political. In my real life I am now focusing on bettering myself. I’ve given up on trying to change the country or anything like that. It can all they to ash. I’ve ran out of fucks to give.
But hey, I’m contributing on !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online again, so there’s that.
You dont use your real name on Lemmy so I dont see why your history matters here. I could understand it on linkedin, which is why its a super cringe platform also, but here? I dont see a problem.
What I still post here is still genuine. I’m just biting my tongue about certain topics. No different than one would do while at work.
Sometimes I do it, and it’s just because I don’t really like what I wrote. I read it and it’s just banal, and I’m like, “you’re not moving the discourse forward at all.”
What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit to their posts. They’re their posts, they have the right to do it, but I’m like, c’mon, Reddit isn’t suffering from it. They’re selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.
I think that’s like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.
I’ve done it once asking a question. However once I got my answer and I edited my post with “solved with (insert reply from one of comments)” and people still replied with the same answers for a few days with slight variations. I got fed up with notifications and deleted the post.
you should delete this post
Probably multiple reasons. If it’s a throwaway account they may want to cover the tracks. If it didn’t get a response they were looking for, they may delete and recreate to avoid the double posting rules. They may have posted on the wrong account, or maybe the answer was so obvious they were embarrassed.
It contradicts my current argument
I’ve deleted a few comments where I read further in the thread and realized somebody already said what I said, or I interpreted the topic incorrectly and my comment is just idiotic, or some other reason I thought it just didn’t add anything. I think I deleted an Ask Lemmy question one time because I almost immediately found the answer or that the question really didn’t make any sense.
Personally the app I use sucks, so I realize I commented on the wrong thread and I delete the duplicate
Perhaps Lemmy should offer an option to delete the OP and retain comments?
I would also like to see some of the comments even after the original post is deleted if the post author is ok with leaving them up.
That would be nice.
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Me reading my posts from a week ago: “Fucking hell, I used to be so cringe back then!”
madjo@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
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!”