I don't know if keeping the usernames visible is a good or a bad thing at this point, but it kinda sucks for insecure people who don't wanna get roasted lol

Here’s a fact! It doesn’t matter unless they actually a judge!

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Out of a hundred possible good reasons to delete, it'll probably be perceived as something you did wrong, because then people can gloat.

These posts that are aimed at one person but pretending to be about lemmy in general are sophomoric and dumb.

Disagree!

People who delete their post after getting an answer are bad citizens of the community.

If everyone did that it would be a wasteland.

If I see you do it regularly I will block your posts so as to not waste time.

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Otoh sometimes people realize they posted something rude and insensitive, and are not the kind of asshats who double down on bad positions but instead prefer to take our lumps and try to do better in the future

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Sometimes someone says something awful, and I just go the fuck off on them. Paragraphs of refutal, logic argument, citations. And I let it sit for a minute, and go back and delete it because I just don't like my vibe and honestly what difference will it make?

But then I get upvotes because some users can see deleted comments, and it makes me feel pretty good

There’s a difference between regretting a post and taking your ball to go home.

not just 'whoop, someone made the same joke as me, welp, here I sit'

Its basically just a malignant narcissist flag.

I have anxiety, and I talk wayyyy tooo much, okay? okay. [deleted] ;)

If I post in the wrong place I delete it. Don't care how you look at me.

This is the way.

Unless it’s legitimately a mispost (egregiously wrong place) I’ll usually just edit if I was wrong and let it stand for posterity so other fediverse users aren’t left wondering

How could you?

If so, it's entirely possible to edit the post by crossing out or even erasing all the offensive words and adding or substituting an apology. "I've realized I posted something rude and insensitive here, so I've deleted it and will try to do better in the future."

I dont even edit my misspellings anymore. Take me as I am, dumb ass and all.

I do that as well, except I don't hit send and delete it. Sometimes I just need something let out and doesn't need it to be out in the public

Sometimes typing it out makes it sound way more stupid than I initially thought so why bother

You'd rather be exposed to unintended idiocy?

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In a similar vein, I wish people who lose arguments could be better about leaving it up.

We’re all anonymous here so you shouldn’t let your ego get in the way of debating ideas and debunking bad ones.

I really need to make an undelete instance. It would be incredibly easy to federate and then just ignore the code that executes a delete when it receives it via ActivityPub.

I can't see deleted comments but I still upvote them because why not

dumb
as you are
as you were
as I want you to be

I support this.

People need to deal with their own bullshit, and also understand that... the internet is forever.

Take some accountability and grow from a mistake, and foster a culture where its normal to be stupid and wrong about some things, and then grow... none of this bs 'i have never had a bad take' nonsense.

If you want something to be temporary, figure out how to say it in an actually temporary, disposable way.

Actually, this is one of the biggest longevity-harming issues with the way Lemmy works: people ask a legitimate question, it gets a great answer, and the original poster deletes the entire submission once satisfied. Access to even the responses seems to be totally cut off versus (Old?) Reddit in which you can still view the discussions if you have a link to the post. At least that's how I've been understanding it. I mean, I saw a notice by a Lemmy mod in a Q&A tech community once (can't remember which, but I can try to look for it) asking people to not delete their posts once they get answers.

From what I understand, this is more about legitimately good posts getting deleted and basically the solid info amid the responses getting lost/inaccessible as a result. Despite the decreased anonymity, the loss of information for the hive mind is severer than on Reddit, where deleted stuff can still show up in search engines, or something like that. I don't remember the details of how it works but it's a mounting problem with Lenny's design. Perhaps a better explanation by me elsewhere in this post: https://programming.dev/comment/24979223

Thank you for your service

Especially since there's no accumulation of points here! I like to look and see the reaction numbers, but they don't affect anything beyond that one moment in that one place.

They really need to add a way to view mod removed posts

So do we get the opposite if mods delete our comments. Not everything I say is awesome but everyone the mods delete that I say is awesome

What happens if you delete your account?

You disappear in real life, like inception

Sometimes I comment, then immediately think about it and say "I really dgaf" then delete it. Look at me funny all you want.

Wandering the void until your mind vegetates from 1000 years of boredom.

yes i often do it because it sounds wierd or it is could be a misinterpretation. usually people are aggressive with things like misinformaiton/propaganda usually leave it up. aside from teh bots who delete theirs immediately.

Do you mean the improvement of existing mod blog?

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I’m judging you harshly pussy

You have "see upvotes/downvotes" turned on?

I only have bad takes and my entire life's purpose is to keep making them worse.

No

I delete my comments regularly few weeks after posting them, because often my paranoia kicks in, and I feel like I have to at least cover my tracks a bit. I do however, do my best to leave up all comments that answer something or have relevant information.
When I switch accounts to a new one, I delete my full comment history, though. I know this is bad for the continuity and history and everything, but I have not figured out ways to lessen my paranoia. And it does not help, that I somewhat lack in emotions, and do not care much, what people I do not know, think about me or my actions. So my options are, either keep doing this, or stop commenting. So far the first one has won.