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?
How would someone remove something that should be removed? I have accidentally commented on the wrong post, and that should be removed. I think we have to trust our users at least a bit, although it may be a good option to give users the ability to delete a post/comment or simply remove them as the author