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Why do Lemmy users delete their comments? (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I haven’t noticed this phenomenon on other social networks, but I’ve seen it a lot here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It might be other platforms not saying a comment has been deleted or users here being more likely to engage with content and delete it for various reasons.

For example a post said "What was wierdest gift you've received this years?" and someone may have missed the this year and told a story about a prior Christmas. They could have also accidentally replied to a different comment instead of the post itself.

Lemmy also uses up and down votes like Reddit so maybe they got a few too many down votes and just deleted it.

Not sure though. Just spitballing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You've never said something then thought better of it seconds after posting? Or perhaps you posted something as factual, but moments later figured out it wasn't?

Its one thing if your comment has been sitting for hours or days and is part of the conversation, I won't delete those even when I'm wrong. I'll just do an edit and change to strikethrough. However, if its literally seconds and you realize your post is just unnecessarily inflammatory, or reading further comments leads you to sources that you find you are wrong under a minute from posting? Yes, I'll delete those. No reason to waste other people's time when what I ended up added is a net negative to the conversation and I know it. I can't say I delete often, but very occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe you're noticing it more because deleting comments used to remove them completely from view including any replies, but I think recent updates to Lenny's code changed this and now we see DELETED instead.