Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It's devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.

Lemmy doesn't track an account's karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won't affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.

Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won't be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I will say in their defense that some people delete their comments/posts not because they care about "karma" but because they now feel they were wrong and are genuinely embarrassed or think that its continued presence is just an annoyance to other people.

That said, imo, unless you realize you've broken a rule in posting it or literally just posted by accident, it's healthier for yourself and the community to simply e.g. edit in a correction and a "mea culpa", even if you continue to get dogpiled for it.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

I delete them when I don't have the energy to argue with people online about things. They can be the one terminally online. I'm not chasing them down that rabbit hole. Especially when you get comment after comment replying to you and you know they don't want to argue in good faith and you're just signing up to get cyber bullied by a brick wall.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I have, in the several years I’ve been here, deleted only a handful of comments - pretty much exclusively as a result of me being in a terrible mood and/or too drunk and commenting something very stupid or dickish, then reading it the next morning and going “what the fuck was I doing 🤦‍♂️”. That is thankfully vanishingly rare for me lol

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone’s presence is annoying. That’s called being human.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is there no one in your life whose presence you enjoy?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

All the time? Fuck no. Hell, my wife and I love each other in part because we like time alone.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2 points 1 day ago

That's an impossible standard to achieve. Best one can do is become neutral, whatever benefits they bring balances out the burden of dealing with them.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Not who you're replying to, but.....nope.