Open an user's page, and bookmark it with a brief description. Or have an alt in software that allows this sort of thing.

Reminder: get a new account every month to avoid being tagged.

Unmoderated communities become defacto moderated by admins

Is this some Lemmy-compatible app, or the browser?

If some app, might I suggest trying to upload through the browser, to rule out if that's the culprit?

Hello,

if you can still reproduce this issue, could you please share an exact time + time zone when this happened to you?

If they aren't mods, then they can't really. There's only so much a community can do without mod abilities. Can't stop spam, can't ban spammers etc.

Depending on the instance and the community in general. It's possible for admins to appoint a new moderator and remove the old ones. Lemmy.world will. I know because one of the communities I moderate was effectively moderatorless for a couple of years. But a few of us in the community stepped up.

Nope, the community has no moderator.

However, admins have access to reports. And if it's on Lemmy.World, I have started looking for such communities using a tool I wrote, which I hope will also make it easier for admins to monitor which subs aren't handling reports in a timely manner.

We have some others who have already put time and effort into working on monitoring that sort of thing, but I'm hoping to improve our response times.

We are generally seeking volunteers to moderator - who will handle reports hopefully daily, but definitely almost-daily. It requires occasionally dealing with folks being nasty, making sure posts and comments do fit the rules of the community as well as the instance Terms of Service. It's not a lot of work, but most people don't want to do it (which is fine).

Even if a lemming doesn't wish to moderatoe, however, honest and legitimate reports of rule-breaking posts and comments are appreciated. It's how we can eliminate the bad things from Lemmy.

Funnily enough, the newest Elder Scrolls game just got a teaser, so the timing has wound up very fortuitous. Hopefully it means those communities will get a few volunteers and some renewed activity in the near future My thanks for your help :)

I've PMd your lemmy.world account a couple of times. lol. But th basic idea is: I'm working through the process on other requested communities, they're almost certainly going to you in a few days. :)

Yeah there's tons of upsides to Lemmy/the Fediverse over Reddit, in my opinion. We could cite a bunch of them.

This happens to be one of the downsides - unclear "Error!" which is just "OP deleted their post."

I still can't login to old.lemmy.world. I get a "400 Bad Request: rate_limit_error"

One more reason to consider switching instances, I guess.

Lemmy design choice, not .world :)

Yep, lemmy dev wheelhouse not mine, and I will say that one of the nice things about being an admin is that I can see deleted items - for a while until they're permanently deleted. heh.

Design philosophy… I find it irritating that the comments I delete are still out there at all, so I've gotten in the habit of editing then deleting them.

The flip side - if we're comparing Lemmy to Reddit though - is that scoring you see is not fudged, and you can see your votes happen in real time. If there's a delay in applying the vote, the spinny stays until it happens. With reddit, I'd refresh to make sure my upvote stuck because a lot of times it didn't, just silently fail, and that was irritating.

So it just comes down to different devs making different choices, I suppose.

Possibly a bug, possibly just the way it deals with deleted threads.

Thought that might be the case. A Lemmy.World bug then?

I tried viewing it from their instance the other day, but I couldn't.

I guess it depends on what instance you're using. I'm on Mbin and I get the "deleted by original author" message.

At the top, it says:

Error!

Just scroll up to the top, it should say there.

Thanks; how did you know that without mod/admin access?

Thank you for looking into that. That would explain there not being a mod log entry about it. I wish I knew how to see that's what happened myself without bothering an admin, if possible.

Which helps me pivot onto my next point, which is probably not within your wheelhouse, but:

Why on Earth would all future viewing/replying to comments be generically "Error!"ed? I understand the post itself being pseudo-deleted for OPs' privacy's sake, but having a discussion pretend to not exist or be bugged because the OP we've forgotten long ago is frustrating - not to mention the frustration of figuring out what even happen; I imagine most people would just write this off as "lemmy servers suck" and move on.

Just to confirm, deleted by the creator. (excessive blurring just as a habit since the author chose to delete it)

The entire post was deleted by its author.

Seems to be back and stable again. Thanks so much!

Thank you for keeping me updated about this.