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Community behaviour around deletion of posts (lemmy.radio)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[โ€“] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

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