People that follow someone around and downvote everything they write are pathetic. I would say I'm glad they are wasting their time, but I guess they can set up a bot to do it all so idk. It wouldn't be hard for an administrator to see.

Wait, deleting a post removes alle comments?

Like in deleting them aswell?

These types of outlets do exist(old/rarely used) but it’s mounted sideways. However it doesn’t seem to have any grounding going on. Afaik a circular one should have grounding.

Even if you're on Reddit, deleting your post/comment because of downvotes is cowardly. Is your ego so fragile you won't stand by your own words because of imaginary internet points?

I fucking hate the current- and probably next-gen slop. Modern cell phone cameras rely on computational photography, since the software based solution of guessing what's there is much easier than expanding the physical optics and sensors.

But that also leads to artifacts that are very similar to AI-generated bullshit, because both are based on a computer making guesses based on a noisy input.

I hate that I can’t tell the difference between a cell phone's bad guess and a data center's really good guess.

Deleting a post also removes all comments on it.

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

People are deleting their account because imagined karma being low? Why do people even care. I have no idea how much karma I have and it's pointless to know.

That really is the max sillyness, caring about points and likes on social media.

There's bots on Lemmy that vote farm. There really is no sense to any of it.

Live by your mistakes, be honest about them how else are you supposed to get better.

Aye aye capin"

I had a few heavily heavily downvoted comments on Reddit, usually just for making a joke that missed…. But I’d never delete them. Gotta own your mistakes and make up for it with quality replies

Even if that were true, how is it on the down voters that your self esteem is so low that fake internet points are a defining characteristic of your identity? Someone didn't like what I posted? Boo hoo.

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

execute healthy bowel movements, king

On reddit if you have a low karma your account gets severely limited. Shadow bans, you can't post on many subreddits etc.

But there's no such issues here most of the time. Each post / comment stands by its own merit.

So basically you're saying we should lobotomize all koalas? what the fuck dude, i can't believe you'd clearly state such a horrible opinion in a way that can't possibly be misinterpreted, how the fuck can you sincerely and passionately think that?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I've noticed that too. I have a lurker account but I've been largely out of touch with Reddit since 2014 or so.

If it were a good post it’d have a positive vote count.

I don't always agree with the hivemind's judgment.

When I left reddit I just quit. I didn't clean up anything.

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!

Probably banned you for not being a bot.

Is because you are molded and shaped by the community, so you don't want anything that is against it left online.

I have no idea how much karma I have

Because there is no such a thing as karma on lemmy. Upvotes dont sum up anywhere for us to see.

Lemmy is great! A post in one community can be heavily downvoted but in another would be upvoted to heaven. E.g. Ukraine@lemmy.ml and Ukraine@sh.itjust.works. Teaches us to read the room.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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 JohnDoe21 rather than on fucking Renamed user 12123738120912469074567097145637089345278901253470986453sfndmmsdfhnlgasmdfhbksfgjdsfd.

Are people deleting because of karma?

At least from my time on Reddit, when people deleted something, it's because they didn't want the post to come back and bite them a while because of others seeing it after the fact, or they just regularly scrubbed the account for privacy reasons, rather than anything to do with actual karma.

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.

If you have karma to burn, sure. But if you're low-karma and an infrequent poster, a drop in karma means your comments get blocked in some communities or, worse, shadowbanned.

Don’t delete your stuff over downvotes ever. Say what you mean and mean what you say and if some people don’t like that oh well. The need for universal validation is killing human discourse

Being authentic means not everyone is going to like or agree with you all the time, it’s a good thing

It’s both, I’ve seen plenty of posts on Reddit before I was banned about helping people not care so much about downvotes which they found devastating, which the answer btw is therapy, no one should care that much about the opinions of bots and a few strangers

I hope it stays this way. Karma systems inevitably create tribalistic echo chambers, where people downvote others simply because they disagree with a statement but lack any logical counterargument. It is an attempt to silence dissenting opinions, a form of behavior that is both extremely toxic and primitive.

You should still delete your posts and comments.

There’s only so much server space and if it turns out you dropped a stinker you can save dozens of servers from having to hold it.

Piefed does have some bizarre attitude system. It was not well documented if it was only your own votes that factor into it, and I did not want to waste time deciphering the code to figure it out.

you should at least replace your history with gibberish or ai poisoning, couple of open source githubs that do it, dont let them keep monetizing your contributions

maybe that will make polaroids a thing again, since it relied on exposure i would image it would be more difficult to fake

Yeah but what about the dopamine hit or loss upon societal rejection?

Even without karma (beyond good and evil), isn't there a societal sense of shame or guilt for writing something horrible?

ai burning down the data center trying to keep up with my bpd

The main problem is that people give down votes for other opinions. They can't go to the next post or comment without pressing the negativity button. Their ego is fragile.

But I agree with your comment.

And if you come from Reddit where people can't ignore a comment with a different opinion and have to down vote it, please don't do that here. We don't need that negativity.

Yes. Mine, too. I can't give or see down votes.

But you don't usually need down votes. If it's terribly bad, report it... If not, ignore it...

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Well, you can say stupid shit and only realize it after you already posted it.

In those situations it's better to just edit the comment so people can still read the stupid shit with the context that the commenter doesn't believe in the stupid shit anymore.

For instance, I downvoted this comment because I think it's a poor generalization and I'd rather have better thought out comments promoted

You could achieve that by up voting the others that are better and not down voting anything. Causes useless negativity, which is the reason why many big platform removed it or never introduced it. At least, you gave a comment and explained your view. That's usually what I do instead of down voting.

People should perhaps be cautious of what they downvote. I recently posted my take on something, but said I was open to counterarguments. The responses were good and made me reconsider (though not entirely alter) my opinion. My initial take was downvoted—which feels like it is being used as a 'disagree' button, which is arguably not the point.

Sometimes, we say a thing we meant, but then later we learn a new thing or our perspective on an issue changes. That old post/comments can feel quite embarrassing or shameful, and removing it (or editing the original content out) can feel like the only way to still feel like you belong. If the choice is between removing one piece of your history here, or removing yourself from the community, the one piece feels like the superior choice. IF that's the alternative.

I set my lemmy client so that I can't see downvotes, only how many upvotes... and my instance doesn't enable downvotes as is. It changes the experience for the better imo

the disagree button is a common argument on lemmy. you just can't get rid of it as it is so much easier, than writing a comment.

just ignore it, if people use it to disagree. its just some stupid internet points - which don't even get summed up (as OP mentioned)