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.
This really needs to change. OP shouldn’t have control over the conversations everyone’s having, even if they can remove their portions of it. Even reddit didn’t give OP that power, even if it was removed from the sub page.
FWIW some instances/front ends preserve the comments section, although it ends up being a bit jank. For example, if you load this through lemmy.zip, it shows as an error because OP deleted it. But if you go through old.lemmy.zip you can still see (most of) the comments, although not what the original post was.
https://lemmy.zip/post/65423752
https://old.lemmy.zip/post/65423752
If your post has replies, “deleting” a comment should just remove your name from the post. Not just the replies remain, but the original comment too
The Right to Erasure would like a word with you there.
For that matter, let each comment have an edit history so we can see what you’ve changed. Usually it’ll just be a spelling/formatting mistake, but the people deserve to know!
No. It should be your choice to remove your own content AND replies often contain quotes of the original post.
(about to vent) This is like the idiocracy Wikimedia projects all have, like “oh we can rename you so that people don’t know it was you, we can still see it ourselves tho, also don’t ever ever edit again or we put the name back and mute you for a while” then I am like “yeah sure” and then they did in fact change the name of the account in the logs BUT pressing 2 buttons on it shows the original name AND it now basically just fucking GLOWS among the other names. Like, as if they seriously think one would rather press the same 2 buttons to check for renames on
JohnDoe21rather than on fuckingRenamed user 12123738120912469074567097145637089345278901253470986453sfndmmsdfhnlgasmdfhbksfgjdsfd.I dunno the ins and outs of wiki infighting, but I don’t think one person should have control over whether hundreds of comments get seen or not. Unfortunate if people can quote things that put you in a bad light but unless things are taken out of context maybe just think harder about what you post in the first place.