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?
when i delete a post or comment, it’s usually because i realized that i responded to the wrong comment or that i posted in the wrong community; will it still show in such circumstances?
For comments there is no change. For posts, if you delete a post which has no comments it wont be visible to anyone else. If it has comments and you delete the post, then it will only be accessible by direct link but not via post listings on the community page or frontpage.