As a regular contributor to discussion across a wide spectrum of Lemmy (and other fediverse) communities, I’ve come to see some people who will submit a post, get replies and then delete that post.
While I understand that this is a feature of the platform, in my opinion, it’s extremely disrespectful to anyone who took the time to provide a considered, or otherwise, response.
While we’re building a global community, is there any appetite to discourage such behaviour, or are we okay with this experience?
One idea might be to update the platform to “zombie” a post when its author deletes it, leaving it exactly where it is, but removing the author.
Anyone?
What happens if you had mistakenly copy pasted some info that you didn’t want to post? Do you want that to be at risk? I know I’m stupid enough to make a mistake like that.
Secondly what about the edit feature. One could just edit a post empty and then delete it, so the zombying won’t work either unless you also remove the ability to edit.