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Why can't we properly delete comments? (feddit.uk)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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When I "delete" a comment, all it does is replace the text with "deleted by creator". It doesn't even hide my username. This is different from previous behaviour where the comment was entirely removed from the public view.

I should be in control of my comment. If I want to delete it then it should be entirely removed - at least from the public view. I don't want to make comments knowing that I'm permenantly etching my username into the stone of the thread forever with no ability to delete it. I'm highly put off from engaging now that I can't reliably delete what I write.

Being able to undo the deletion is fine but the undo really should only last 1h or maybe 24h before the comment is properly deleted.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

This is an feature of Lemmy, so I don't think there's much we can do. It should be easy enough to sort out because it's already checking it's your post to offer you the undelete option, so it could just hide a deleted post from everyone other than the user or moderators. However, it'd need to be flagged up to the Lemmy developers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair, I was hoping it'd be something you could configure. Hopefully this improves with Lemmy in the future then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll have a nose around but I think it's just part of the functionality and may need to sorted through a feature request to the devs.

[–] cashews_best_nut 1 points 10 months ago

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