When you devote 30 minutes to a detailed answer about something you're passionate about and refresh to find "permanently deleted"
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Or if you're like me and see a thread, be all like "Oh, that could be interesting, I'll check that later," and put your phone away for a few hours, and then, when you finally get to check the thread again, and refresh it just to be up to date, you see it's been permanently deleted...
Firmly agree. If I notice a trend on posts being deleted after posting, I just block the user so I don't see the new posts. Nothing is more annoying then putting a bunch of effort responding to someones question, especially tech related, just for them to nuke the post later on so it was all for nothing.
Thankfully though, it's few and far between on the communities that I usually look at, so I have not noticed it a whole lot.
just a quick question, any reason on why they do it...? I find it counterintuitive
I think it's trying to minimize their digital footprint/reduce the amount of LLMs that will ingest their post.
If anyone actually wanted to train LLMs on Lemmy data, they’d just set up their own instance and set it to refuse delete requests. Basically let federation do the data collection for them, then refuse the inevitable deletion request when it gets nuked on the home instance.
as others have said, generally a privacy issue type deal. Sometimes regarding data being collected then sold.
I don't agree with the mentality tbh, if you were concerned about that just don't post. Nothing is stopping the data collectors from collecting it anyway(I'm sure they already have their own instance set to auto sub and ignore deletion requests), the only people who are effected by it are the users who wanted to see the post, and the people who put effort into responding.
I deleted a post because it was the dumbest shit ever written by humanity. I was drunk at the time...
So? Leave it up for the humor.
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Sometimes it's because they're getting answers they don't like.
Debate boards here just wouldn't work out even with equivalent population. The OPs regularly delete their posts out of embarrassment. Religious debaters especially.
What a waste it'd be to put the effort into a debate only for the entire thread to get nuked out of existence because the OP can't handle the responses. It's annoying enough to just lose the OP arguments on reddit when they self delete. Here, everything is just gone.
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hope this gets deleted soon
You're not alone in this. This is a carryover from reddit, and it's maddening. But, thus is life, I guess.
Lemmy will never be the resource reddit became if everyone just deletes their info.
So gosh darn tired of that.
To those deleters, I want to say: if you don't like the answers that you're getting, tough shit buddy. Learn from your mistake. Leave the post up for other people to also learn.
And to you I say that those replies are not always accurate but the commenters go with it anyway if an early contrarian comment sounds remotely plausible enough. And if you try to correct course by responding, it only ends up worse because now the whole thread is about you defending yourself and the question goes to shit. People downvote and stop commenting, or worse, pille on. No thanks.
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A lot of people make posts and then delete the post and/or their entire account, nuking large threads leaving them with the title "Permanently Deleted."
My solution to this is:
- Use a UI or app that badges or otherwise indicates new accounts (or accounts newer than 30 days or so)
- Refuse to interact with those accounts in the various "ask" communities. Maybe even throw it a downvote if it seems like it's coming from the same person that keeps doing this.
- If no one engages with them, maybe they'll knock this "hit it and quit it" bullshit off.
Sorry legit new accounts, but it's these selfish assholes that are ruining things for you and everyone else.
I had a 2 year old account, then lemm.ee shut down and I'm a baby again :(
Welcome to sh.itjust.works, btw!
there is always bad actors that get everyone else in trouble or put them all in a bad light... :(
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I'm fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it's not just me.
Yup, extremely annoying
You sound like a fed to me... 🤨
/s (unless..?)
I'm fed up
The solution to this is changing the software to give the communities more control over the content, being able to restore the comment, maybe without the name so the persons username keeps unaffected while still keeping the content intact.
This needs to go into the lemmy software issue tracker to be considered. That is the way to change things.
Sure but then I get someone making an unnecessarily critical and destructive comment and my post turns to shit and nobody participates anymore because they're too fixated on the comment and start down voting the thread instead.
I recently made a post on AskLemmy and the third guy commenting just started casting doubts on what I shared even though it was an anecdote and it's something that happens where I live. My story's sole purpose was to generate interest and get people commenting. But nooo, I can't do that because what happened is inconceivable in their country so it must be impossible everywhere else! Lemmy always knows best. Fuck it, nuked.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve had this experience too, and also since I turned on the feature in Voyager to track votes per user, you’re at a +7 with me
Nice, you're +6 on mine. :) Good to see you 'round!
Holy shit THANK YOU. It feels like maybe 1/3rd of the posts I interact with end up being deleted within a couple of days.
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