Otoh sometimes people realize they posted something rude and insensitive, and are not the kind of asshats who double down on bad positions but instead prefer to take our lumps and try to do better in the future

From what I understand, this is more about legitimately good posts getting deleted and basically the solid info amid the responses getting lost/inaccessible as a result. Despite the decreased anonymity, the loss of information for the hive mind is severer than on Reddit, where deleted stuff can still show up in search engines, or something like that. I don't remember the details of how it works but it's a mounting problem with Lenny's design. Perhaps a better explanation by me elsewhere in this post: https://programming.dev/comment/24979223

Sometimes I comment, then immediately think about it and say "I really dgaf" then delete it. Look at me funny all you want.

What of someone posts empty comments as an answer to a hot thread, then deletes it, to make people think the person knew the answer?

I know what I'm doing today!

Here's hoping the other wolf doesn't win 🤘🏼

Wait, yall arent dogs as well?

I can't see deleted comments but I still upvote them because why not

I do that as well, except I don't hit send and delete it. Sometimes I just need something let out and doesn't need it to be out in the public

Sometimes typing it out makes it sound way more stupid than I initially thought so why bother

You have "see upvotes/downvotes" turned on?

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dumb
as you are
as you were
as I want you to be

I support this.

People need to deal with their own bullshit, and also understand that... the internet is forever.

Take some accountability and grow from a mistake, and foster a culture where its normal to be stupid and wrong about some things, and then grow... none of this bs 'i have never had a bad take' nonsense.

If you want something to be temporary, figure out how to say it in an actually temporary, disposable way.

You disappear in real life, like inception

You're doomed to circle the drain until you find yourself back in the Cesspit of Redderp, trying to keep yourself whole until you can escape again —hopefully, untainted by the no-effort nazis, pedo-fans, cumboxes, etc. that churn in that "fun-sized" alphashit soup.

Do you mean the improvement of existing mod blog?

What do you mean you don't?

Modlog exists

You could always block the people making these posts instead of ineffectively complaining.

I just had a bad connection and my comment was posted twice. :-/

Actually, this is one of the biggest longevity-harming issues with the way Lemmy works: people ask a legitimate question, it gets a great answer, and the original poster deletes the entire submission once satisfied. Access to even the responses seems to be totally cut off versus (Old?) Reddit in which you can still view the discussions if you have a link to the post. At least that's how I've been understanding it. I mean, I saw a notice by a Lemmy mod in a Q&A tech community once (can't remember which, but I can try to look for it) asking people to not delete their posts once they get answers.

Someone elses idiocy can be your guide to wisdom.