No Stupid Questions

Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they're done. It's annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that's still the case.

Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone (especially legit new users) and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.

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

Me reading my posts from a week ago: "Fucking hell, I used to be so cringe back then!"

I tend to do the much more efficient system of writing an entire essay to then decide to delete it before posting.

user deleted their post

/sorry I had to

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.

Sometimes I'll submit a comment that's too jaded and cynical that I don't want to expose others to after some hindsight.

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.

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

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.

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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.

Sometimes I'll delete a comment if someone's already made the shitty joke or I'm too stoned and misread the original post, it's usually the second one tho.

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.

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 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 contradicts my current argument

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.

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.

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.

you should delete this post