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

user deleted their post

/sorry I had to

Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they’re done. It’s annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that’s still the case.

Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone (especially legit new users) and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.

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

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.

Idk why but when I see deleted by creator I think it’s funny to imagine God personally zapping it from existence but they still leave that so everyone knows it was them

It contradicts my current argument

Sometimes I do it for comments, and it’s just because I don’t really like what I wrote. I read it and it’s just banal, and I’m like, “you’re not moving the discourse forward at all.”

What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit. They’re their posts, they have the right to do it, but I’m like, c’mon, Reddit isn’t suffering from it. They’re selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.

I think that’s like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.

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.

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.

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.

Lack of commitment

Because they later felt embarrassed by their question.

deleted by creator

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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 tend to do the much more efficient system of writing an entire essay to then decide to delete it before posting.

Sometimes I’ll submit a comment that’s too jaded and cynical that I don’t want to expose others to after some hindsight.

Well I was going to explain but

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.

Me reading my posts from a week ago: “Fucking hell, I used to be so cringe back then!”

Half the time, it’s because I don’t read the original comment closely enough and realize that my point no longer makes sense, but I usually only do this if it’s less than a minute or two after posting.

I always assumed it was because either deleted because it was a bot post, or they self-deleted because they got down voted and got mad about it.

Personally the app I use sucks, so I realize I commented on the wrong thread and I delete the duplicate

To prevent annoying trolls from digging through my post history, mostly. I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow. Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway, the only readership of old comments is AI scrapers trying to steal my words for their algorithm.

Of course, deleting stuff on Lemmy doesn’t mean actually deleting anything. You can trivially ignore deletion requests as a server and some seem to keep old copies of deleted content.

There’s no automated way to do it with Lemmy so I’ve written my own automation tool that occasionally runs.

you should delete this post

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I’ve done it once asking a question. However once I got my answer and I edited my post with “solved with (insert reply from one of comments)” and people still replied with the same answers for a few days with slight variations. I got fed up with notifications and deleted the post.

I’ve deleted a few comments where I read further in the thread and realized somebody already said what I said, or I interpreted the topic incorrectly and my comment was meaningless, or some other reason I thought it just didn’t add anything. I think I deleted an Ask Lemmy question one time because I almost immediately found the answer myself or decided the question really didn’t make any sense.