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?
It contradicts my current argument
Why do so many people delete their posts?
Submitted 10 months ago by madjo@feddit.nl to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
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
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Makes sense for comments, but for posts to for instance this Sub-lemmy?
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sub-lemmy
Technically the term is “community” here.
Subreddits are to Reddit as Communities are to Lemmy.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well shit, read that title wrong. Moving along …
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Can’t reply to Some Amateur’s removed comment, just want to say, I enjoyed your contribution! And that could indeed also be a valid reason
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
sometimes you just don’t want to see the dumb post you made at 2am
jumjummy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
user deleted their post
/sorry I had to
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
😄
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.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 10 months ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Or they do get the answer they want and now they don’t need to get anymore answers.
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I’d then update the post thanking every one for the answers provided, and that you don’t need any more.
madjo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
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.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
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.