I feel that there should be a rule that users are not able to delete posts over a certain threshold because it completely destroys all discussion that post had.
Users have legislative protection of their right to be forgotten in many jurisdictions, so, yes, they should be able to. The question is more should they have the ability to take other people’s content out at the same time
Deleting posts should be possible but that shouldn’t affect the comments. They’d need to stay in some [deleted post] thread
You should absolutely be allowed to delete something in case you accidentally dox yourself.
In that case, couldn’t you just edit out the doxxing part?
Who knows how many people in the comments are talking about the location by the time you realize.
Better be safe than sorry and delete it all.
Now that I think about it, I’m not sure what the difference is. Why allow one and not the other? They are effectively the same. The only difference is how lemmy handles deletion where it deletes the whole thread under it, but that’s what lemmy should fix, not disallowing people to delete their comments. That’s a privacy nightmare and against the law in the EU.
Agreed. I’d much rather see a partial conversation with [comment deleted] here and there then lose an entire conversation when someone wants to dip out.
Yes.
I’ve seen others mention this as well recently. I think the solution is to delete the post content and details, but leave the thread below it. The post page won’t show up in feeds or search but could still be accessible from user inboxes and by direct link
Other foruma offer anonymization of the post. Discourse can do this and so does hacker news. You can choose to make a post, comment, or an entire account anonymized and continue posting away…
Users should not be able to delete or modify posts after one interaction.
