cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731

Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.

Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.

Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.

  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I get that but there’s also a certain “ugh” when a bunch of .ml folks find a post and want to yell at you about it.

      • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        For sure. But it’s just tiring to get notifications for hours of someone yelling about shit libs or something.

        • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          That’s a different situation though. Getting dogpiled isn’t fun. Op is talking about regular normal posts and comments.

          • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
            21·
            2 months ago

            That’s totally fair. I guess I have a hard time imaging anyone caring about downvotes so I assumed it had to be something like what I described.

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Sometimes down votes are a sign that you’re saying things people don’t want to hear or the right things but on a crazy instance, but sometimes down votes are a chance for self reflection where you have to ask yourself “Am I the asshole?” and in the latter case yeah I’m probably just going to delete it. No apologies though, I’m not looking to be a saint here.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Devastating? Jeez.

    If you want to make a code change proposal, go ahead and make one. Otherwise, deletion is a feature offered to Lemmy users to use as they see fit. In fact some earlier (unrelated) proposals to speed up the software were rejected on the grounds that deletion is required to actually scrub the entry from the database, rather than simply making it inaccessible through the web. The scrubbing requirement may have been abandoned by now though.

    I half remember a Lemmy client (Voyager Jerboa?) with a user setting to automatically delete any post or comment that the user makes after 7 days or something. It had nothing to do with karma. I didn’t use that setting but it seemed reasonable to me. Lemmy is a discussion forum not a long term archive.

    I do like the idea of adding a wiki feature to Lemmy, to hold info of long term value to a community. Reddit already has something like that.**

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I figured it was just instances culling old posts without a lot of engagement. I’ve had posts or comments that I’ve made get deleted and I didn’t request them

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    karma is heavily abused by botters, spammers, and used as an excuse by reddit/mods to filter out people they dont like.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’ve deleted multiple posts for different reasons:

    • answers were crap (mostly offtopic, missing the point, simply attacking me instead of the question, etc.)
    • mbin doesn’t support muting notifications from topics, so I’d just keep getting them, so it was simpler to delete than wait for people to stop talking
    • I got my answers and it wasn’t that important

    I don’t give 2 shits about “points”. You could make this the most downvoted comment on the planet and I would leave it up (if I didn’t get notifications)

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I was on reddit for 10 years and have been on lemmy for 3. I’m still not sure what this is really supposed to mean.

    There is absolutely a “lifetime” karma score available for users, its just not centered in peoples bios like it is on lemmy. But it absolutely exists…

    And if people want to go for high scores more power to them. Get that dopamine where you can queen.

  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Internet points aren’t the only reason people delete their posts/comments, though?

    I think people should think seriously about deleting posts, but comments that don’t contribute to the discussion for whatever reason definitely have a shelf life.

    And that’s aside from the old “a comment you made 10 years ago in another life gets you fired/cancelled” issues due to times changing, some shitlord quoting you out of context, etc, etc.

  • Nytefyre@piefed.socialEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think it’s just downvotes that are the reason posts are deleted. What’s being ignored, is what follows after downvotes. And that is, users being antagonistic over nuanced posts because the posts don’t contain the kind of brainrot-meme-lamejoke kind of content that is the norm.

    And it is never a good feeling getting dogpiled on for absolutely no reason other than just not appeasing to whatever expectancy that is there. Additionally, when there isn’t enough activity aside from that, people can feel like ‘what’s the point?’ because they simply don’t have enough numbers of people engaging.

    So this creates this discouragement within them to keep bothering.