No Stupid Questions

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If you are talking about posts where people lay out their problems and ask for advice, it is probably to avoid getting doxed.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Almost every person I’ve had an argument/discussion with who goes through my past comments to try and find things to use against me when they’re losing has been someone who goes back and deleted all of their comments. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

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.

It contradicts my current argument

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Perhaps Lemmy should offer an option to delete the OP and retain comments?

I would also like to see some of the comments even after the original post is deleted if the post author is ok with leaving them up.

I'll delete my replies when I've been eating too many crayons that evening and the reply ended up being dumb as dog shit...

Though, I'd consider deleting my posts now because AI is scouring this place and training on it I almost guarantee.

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.

Lack of commitment

Can't reply to Some Amateur's removed comment, just want to say, I enjoyed your contribution! And that could indeed also be a valid reason

It was with great pain that I recently deleted something like 50 to 100 of my own posts. They were all political. Lots of great discussions. But we live in a time where having the wrong kind of history on social media could make you a target either now or in the future. I'm sure a lot of that is still floating around one way or another but if I can reduce any spotlights on my ass it's something I felt I had to do.

Since then I haven't deleted anything. I try to keep my posts non-political. In my real life I am now focusing on bettering myself. I've given up on trying to change the country or anything like that. It can all they to ash. I've ran out of fucks to give.

But hey, I'm contributing on !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online again, so there's that.