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.

  • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Let’s be honest: No. It’s an “I don’t like this/agree with this” button.

    Whatever, just own your unpopular opinion or grow from your mistakes, but don’t shred the bits of content we have.

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Well, sometimes I’m not sober, answer and afterwards figure out, that I completely got the wrong idea from the comment I was replying to

      If there is already an answer, I tend to strike-through my comment instead of deleting
      Mostly at least

      Maybe I should really let them stay as well, as a personal reminder to take more care in what I’m answering to

      (And since about a month GBoard seems to act really weird while swiping, like missing words or doing differently than before - anyone else?
      At least, sometimes it’s not salvageable anymore in my opinion and the effort of correcting it is just too much…)

        • Ænima@lemmy.zip
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          1 day ago

          Same, and agree! With an edit owning the strike through content and why I came back to edit. That, to me, shows growth when others do it. Own the mistake and carry on!