Submitted 10 months 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’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.
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you should delete this post
5mb tool to delete comments. Also available as an .exe
Feels like smashmouth_heynow.mp3.exe all over again lol
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.
Personally the app I use sucks, so I realize I commented on the wrong thread and I delete the duplicate
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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.
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?
Causr
Typos definitely can be a reason.
Me reading my posts from a week ago: “Fucking hell, I used to be so cringe back then!”
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!”
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.
Well I was going to explain but
Sometimes I’ll submit a comment that’s too jaded and cynical that I don’t want to expose others to after some hindsight.
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 :)
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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forgot the italics lmao 😁
Lets see if I can still comment on your deleted post though :)
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Because they later felt embarrassed by their question.
Lack of commitment
I’ll delete my replies when I’ve been eating too many crayons that evening and the reply ended up being dumb as dog shit…
Though, I’d consider deleting my posts now because AI is scouring this place and training on it I almost guarantee.
Which color has the best flavor?
Brilliant Bees brand.
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.
Perhaps its something embarassing or potentially very political which they don’t want to remain on the internet forever.
I guess we can add a rule stating that “By participating in this community, you agree to give permission that all your posts/comments can be archived” like under Creative Commons rules. And have a bot automatically archive it.
But then again, there’s an argument that this violates privacy.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.