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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

To preface none of my fellow admins know about this post due to the language that I am using.
Although I do believe that they would be supportive of this as they care about our users just as much as I do.


I just had a run in with a user asking for help who then deleted their post and comments soon after.

If you see any users asking for help I would personally recommend a couple of things to look out for:

  • Check their profile;
    • how old's the account?
    • what kinds of posts and comments are they making?
      • Are they the kind of user you'd be cool with being friends with?
    • Do they have history of deleting posts/comments? If so why? and how often?
  • Check the modlog;
    • have they done or said anything that warrented themselves getting banned or their posts/comments removed?

I'm making this post as I'm personally frustrated seeing posts and comments being removed as it actively harms instances, communities, and most importantly users.

I absolutely despise when I go a saved post or comment thread that I wanted to reread later only to find that I can't cause the post/thread's been deleted by a single user.

There's so much useful or interesting and creative things that people care about and also want to share in terms of life experiences or just having a cool thing to collaborate and work on.

  • having this be ruined by individuals that want to 'dine and dash' basically ruins this.

Honestly Fuck you.
If you 'help farm' especially I will find you and I will ban you because you are actively harming users who spend their precious time, effort, and humanly love to do cool stuff here on the Fediverse.

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[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

What upset me the most about this wasn't that it happened to me but the fact that I saw that this was a repeated bahavior and I can imagine just how annoying and infuriating it feels to be on the recieving end of it for several other users.

I can deal with it as I've got backup methods from experience so for me it's annoying but eh whatever. I'm just annoyed because I know that others have had to experience this zero-sum behavior as well.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a blunt instrument, but I've been temp-banning any new account that posts to any of the various "ask" communities. When I check back on them a few days later, 99% of them show up as "ERROR" when I view them on their home instance.

The upside is that with them being banned at the time they nuke their accounts, the delete request is not accepted and the content/replies remain available.

I'm to the point I'm considering patching the server to ignore federated account deletions since they're being abused by a small number of people in a way that affects the majority of users.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

The questions belong to the users, there is no contention about that.

However the answers belong to those who offered them, making the entire conversation belong to the community as a whole.

Unfortunately I seriously doubt that Lemmy will ever change its behavior in this regard. Keeping a post up after deletion smacks too much of Reddit behavior, and Lemmy defines itself in Reddit's shadow. :-(

Fortunately PieFed has no such limitation, so asking for a feature to help deal with this issue seems to have a very good chance of working on it. :-)

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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