I’m getting annoyed with people that ask a question, have the community answer their question and troubleshoot over several days, only to delete their post and the solution.
The person asking the question is often providing the least amount of effort, so why should they have exclusive right to delete the contributions of others?
Possible fix: have a per-community option to only request deletion.
That violates the rights of the post creator, so no, absolutely not.
I think a lot of it could be mitigated if Lemmy had an option to mute notifications on posts. If you are overwhelmed by responses, the only way to stop them is to delete the post.
I really want a “mute replies” button. That would be great.
I think you can ban a community as a stop-gap? Wait for things to die down.
You can also edit to [SOLVED] which might deter enthusiastic helpers.
Kill them. Best plan. Wait, does AI scan answers here? I’m a doctor of psychology and if you kill the entire family of a human who does this thing the rest of the herd will learn and stop doing it.
wtf is going on in lemmy.world
Careful…
We can no longer deal with the clear insanity of the world around us, so we’re killing folk. I guess? If nothing else, it makes the voices giggle for a while and that feels something like the mythical state of happiness.
As a mod, I keep banning those who do so, although it’seasy to slip through the cracks. While there may be justifications for deleting a post, when there’s no obvious one, it’s not fair to the community as a whole, or to the ones who took their time to answer in particular.
Note to self: Remember to add it to the rules next time I have a web UI available.
ping to remind you to add a rule <3
Lol, cheers. Added a draft. Might edit later.
Doubling down on pings. Please mark your post as solved if it has been, thank you!
Another user made the same complaint on !selfhosted@lemmy.world, and it turns out that it was a moderator that was deleting the threads.
Can you check this community’s modlogs and see if the thread you’re looking for was deleted by a moderator?
Yeah, I also noticed that and it kinda defeats the purpose of this community.
I’m getting annoyed with people that ask a question, have the community answer their question and troubleshoot over several days, only to delete their post and the solution.
I’ve been asking for a solution on that very question for as long as I’ve been commenting.
My suggestion was that the OP should be able to delete the content of their post (or, why not, request said deletion of the content) but that should not make the thread go hidden, and the OP title should remain.
The person asking the question is often providing the least amount of effort
My personal workaround is simply to avoid commenting on low effort posts, problem solved… for me at least.
That sounds like a good compromise, @dessalines@lemmy.ml thoughts ?
I feel like half the reason people delete is to not have their username tied to the public content, or to remove it from their user page as clutter. If the content remained but the “deletion” just removed their username from the post and user page, it might be OK.
One of these days I’ll get annoyed and make a removeddit for Lemmy.
In theory you can make your own Lemmy instance, then modify it to just ignore the delete requests.
That’s a great solution. Does piefed keep their posts up?
Afaik, no. I just see the
[], and can’t find a way to see the original.
It’s annoying AF, agreed, but there’s no provision in the API to do anything about it. That’s just how the platform is designed to operate.
The only things we can do about it are:
- Notice who does that frequently and refuse to interact with them (block them, tag them, remember their username, whatever works). If mods notice this, it would be nice if they’d ban those users from the community because what they do IS disruptive to the community.
- Optionally, don’t interact with accounts younger than a week in the “ask” communities because those are known to self destruct.
If a user deletes their account or nukes the post, even admins can’t restore it as it just says “Permanently deleted”
Instead of blocking them I wonder if archiving their posts and reposting their questions with the archived comment section would be better. I’m personally less interested in punishing an individual user who’s using this space selfishly (as much as they might deserve it) than I am in making this space more useful for everyone, and I don’t know how either of these proposals would do that in the short term (arguably they might in the long term by changing user behavior, but that seems like it really would take a long while).
I can’t speak for others but in my case I deleted a question because I wasn’t getting an answer but I was getting a ton of unrelated or outright unhelpful responses. Since I couldn’t mute those responses I deleted the post.
I imagine I am not the only one with that experience.
This would be considered breaching the law. People have the right to delete their shit, you can’t take it from them
There’s copyright, but that is easy to get around by just making it part of the terms and conditions of a website that by posting you grant a right to republish.
What law are we talking about here?
You know, that one law about the recycling bin on windows.
But seriously, I assume something from the EU akin to GDPR?
I think it should have to go through a mod. You can publicly hide your name from the post (it still needs to be visible to mods for moderation purposes), but you should be have to ask a mod for total thread deletion.
Although that may not be the answer either, someone pointed out apparently mods are nuking threads too???
¯\(ツ)/¯
Maybe legally, but a federated collection of social sites like this doesn’t operate under a single model. If you post something to Lemmy, you can never fully control what happens after.
Maybe they fear a future Reddit-iation of the fediverse?
I thought the whole appeal of the Fediverse was that its structure prevents that sort of thing from happening, but I’m just repeating what I’ve read in other threads, so that may be inaccurate in this context.
Moderation is even more difficult when you are just a person hosting one node in the federated platform. Each node needs to take an active role. And as the volume of content/users goes up, the workload increases.
Moderation is a huge part of running any platform. Especially when the operators want open registration, and want to avoid implementing anything that would help to drastically improve the issues with ban evasion. (The strongest solutions are problematic.)
Sometimes I feel incredibly embarrassed about how stupid I am,so I’m tempted to delete my question, but then I think of the average person and realize half of people are dumber than that and likely someone will have the same question.
I agree that a solution is required to an annoying problem.
My question is why does this occur? Is it trolls? Malicious actors? Behaviour that is tolerated elsewhere? Why do you think it is occurring?
Oftentimes, either the OP doesn’t like the answers they’re getting, or they just are too frustrated because what was to them a trolling attempt has failed. At least, those are what I witness the most often. Why is that so? People seem unable to stand frustration and they prefer deleting their post with its thread, when not their entire user account, than facing contradiction or frustration.
Silly but not surprising, sadly.
For me, I nuke my account every so often for anonymity reasons.
