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Why did you delete your post after getting an answer? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by roofuskit@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I have noticed this is occuring more and more. It is a problem that started to crop up on reddit but now I'm seeing here more often. Do you not want other people to benefit from the answers you received? This community is kind of pointless if you just get an answer and wipe it from the web.

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[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reddit was trying to sell your questions and replies. Many people, including myself, said fuck that and mass changed or deleted our data/comments.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

It was prior to that. I left around that same time.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Well that's when I deleted mine.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fine for reddit, but please don't do that on Lemmy, it works different over here, we don't have one single CEO that decides to fuck over all the users.

Edit: I deleted 10 years of History with over 100.000 comments. Fuck Reddit

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Well I'm sure reddit didn't start out with that in mind either. Well see in a few years I guess.

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