Community behaviour around deletion of posts (lemmy.radio)

submitted 1 month ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Two minds. I definitely think once you've put something out there it belongs to the community and it's really pretty selfish and self absorbed to delete a post. On the other hand I try to remember that nothing on Lemmy or any of these platforms is really that important and while it might suck to have wasted a bit of time on it, it just doesn't matter that much.

this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2025

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