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?
I have seen this “problem” mentioned before, but in practice as far as I know, it’s not actually all that common. Most posts that get deleted are by mods afaik.
If it’s never happened to you, how would you know that it’s happening at all?
Because I often go back to posts I commented on, out of curiosity, and they are rarely deleted.