Cowardice and lack of accountability (even in a pseudonymous forum, which is just ridiculous, lol), usually. The polite and mature thing to do is to post something afterwards like “my bad, I misunderstood/was having a bad day/can be very silly at times/etc.”. On the other hand, I’m using Redact on Reddit to change everything into nonsense because fuck Reddit. 🤷
Because replies sometimes force me to facepalm too much. My face hurts.
Agreed. Could be a relatively active post, excellent engagement and then:
doofus1: “Is this AI?” <it clearly isn’t>
doofus2: “Now that you mention it…proceeds to launch 5 paragraphs as to how it’s AI…blah, blah…” <it isn’t AI>
experts1, 2, &3: “It’s not AI”
doofuses 1& 2, whilst being downvoted into oblivion, push back ad nauseum despite admitting they could be wrong.
14 comments in the thread later, a mod removes some…
Original post succesully derailed.
OP deletes popular post, bc “Why bother?”
lather.rinse.repeat.
Yup, not giving food to the “debate me” sea lion.
I generally only delete posts when I double post on accident. I’m happy to leave my stupidity on display because fuck it.
Sometimes I’ll downvote myself if that seems to be the popular consensus. Who am I to disagree?
Sweet dreams
are made of
Same. Had to delete a mistaken cross post but that’s about it here.
On other sites though, it’s because corpo media can suck it.
That’s the spirit!
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I’ve deleted posts because while I was busy writing up a summary, someone else posted the same news. I’d rather one post get seen than have two posts splitting votes and possibly getting lost. I don’t care who gets ‘credit’ for posting as long the news is visible. If the faster poster used a different link, I might comment something like, ‘more details here’ if indeed there are more details worth noting.
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I regularly notice how some people simply delete their post because they don’t like the way people are answering to it. It’s fine they don’t like those answers, it’s not fair they are given the power to mute them.
I find that behavior annoying. Not because someone deletes their post. I mean, they’re free to do whatever they want, but because by doing so they also render the entire discussion unavailable.
Like if all the other participants were submitted to their whims.
Imho, a solution could be to let people delete their post but not the technical-something-whatever that made their post accessible to read and to answer. And so, no matter how shy or regretful the OP could ever be, people that have answered would not be dependent on their willingness to let them speak. And even if the OP was deleted other people would still be able to read the comments and maybe keep on discussing without te OP being involved.
There was a user or two I would explicitly quote their whole comment because of this.
Had an other user constantly edit his post to add points after I replied which was much worse imo.
The only time I ever delete a comment is if it’s within 30 seconds of posting it, as to not cause things like this.
There was a user or two I would explicitly quote their whole comment because of this.
I considered doing that too a while ago, but then realized it was more work & wasted time for us, right? While we could still see the whole thread risk being deleted because OP decides to? So I decided not to. Instead, I block the persons I’ve noticed doing that so I don’t to waste my time reading their posts anymore in the future and won’t risk wasting even more time trying to comment.
Simply put, since they consider it’s ok for them to delete everyone’s content who participated because they’re unhappy about how it turned, well, I help them stay deleted once and for all from my feed ;)
I do it when I leave. It’s interesting for me to do it on discord servers and notice how the conversation still flows smoothly like i was never a part of it in the first place.
Cuz I said some stupid shit and wanted it gone before anyone noticed.
Unfortunately deletes don’t always federate so it doesn’t help
More often than not this is the reason right here. I post, then go reload to see my post out in the wild. Sometimes it takes a minute to realize I must erase its existence.
Shame induced by illiteracy
I deleted one once because I complained about someone by name, hoping someone else would have experience with them and could offer better advice.
I think it would have been relatively easy for them to find that post, which I didn’t want to risk given that they could cause me harm by denying their services. It wouldn’t have been hard to work out who I was given the context I provided.
I wish I could delete what I say in real life too tbh
To to prevent AI to use it
why?
that’s why
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