I don’t know if keeping the usernames visible is a good or a bad thing at this point, but it kinda sucks for insecure people who don’t wanna get roasted lol

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    I delete comments if I see that somebody else already said the same thing or if I realize I was misinformed when I made the comment. Neither case adds anything useful.

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    As an Australian, with 8-10 shots of alcohol in my system I seem to get the same response I got on Reddit.

    I’m just talking shit and people are getting offended. At least here I wake up with 1-2 replies telling me how wrong and foolish I am instead of Reddit where I woke up with multiple replies and downvotes because everyone is so self-righteous.

    It’s why 4Chan was good… “WAS” good I could get tipsy, Talk a bunch of shit, call the French, Italians, Greek and Turks a bunch of arse holes. 1 or 2 of them would call me the N word or call me a cunt and tell me to kill myself and I could just laugh and move on.

    Reddit you say "Lol I don’t like Nazis* or “Israel is a terrorist state” and you get banned…

    Here I can fairly call Israel a terrorist state but people still get offended if I call France, Italy or Greece useless.

    Don’t get offended… I’m a drunk Australian arsehole… Insult me back!

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    Being roasted isn’t the end of the world. You will emerge cooked but flavorful.

    Seriously though just remember we are all just bots anyway /s

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    People who delete their post after getting an answer are bad citizens of the community.

    If everyone did that it would be a wasteland.

    If I see you do it regularly I will block your posts so as to not waste time.

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      I think this is a good mentality to have. We need to preserve and archive the Internet as best we can. I really wanted to delete my old Reddit account after the API change, but I realized that it would make any tech support threads useless if I just deleted all of my potentially helpful comments. I’ve been there on the other end when looking up a tech support questions and the OP just deleted the solution I was looking for, that was the worst feeling!

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      Otoh sometimes people realize they posted something rude and insensitive, and are not the kind of asshats who double down on bad positions but instead prefer to take our lumps and try to do better in the future

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        If so, it’s entirely possible to edit the post by crossing out or even erasing all the offensive words and adding or substituting an apology. “I’ve realized I posted something rude and insensitive here, so I’ve deleted it and will try to do better in the future.”

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          In a similar vein, I wish people who lose arguments could be better about leaving it up.

          We’re all anonymous here so you shouldn’t let your ego get in the way of debating ideas and debunking bad ones.

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            Especially since there’s no accumulation of points here! I like to look and see the reaction numbers, but they don’t affect anything beyond that one moment in that one place.

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        yes i often do it because it sounds wierd or it is could be a misinterpretation. usually people are aggressive with things like misinformaiton/propaganda usually leave it up. aside from teh bots who delete theirs immediately.

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    I delete my comments regularly few weeks after posting them, because often my paranoia kicks in, and I feel like I have to at least cover my tracks a bit. I do however, do my best to leave up all comments that answer something or have relevant information.
    When I switch accounts to a new one, I delete my full comment history, though. I know this is bad for the continuity and history and everything, but I have not figured out ways to lessen my paranoia. And it does not help, that I somewhat lack in emotions, and do not care much, what people I do not know, think about me or my actions. So my options are, either keep doing this, or stop commenting. So far the first one has won.

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      Seems like good practice. I just recently learned that your up/downvotes are also visible for everyone, which seems odd and sketchy privacy wise. Which result in way less voting by me.

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    Unless it’s legitimately a mispost (egregiously wrong place) I’ll usually just edit if I was wrong and let it stand for posterity so other fediverse users aren’t left wondering

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    If I post in the wrong place I delete it. Don’t care how you look at me.

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      What of someone posts empty comments as an answer to a hot thread, then deletes it, to make people think the person knew the answer?

      I know what I’m doing today!

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      From what I understand, this is more about legitimately good posts getting deleted and basically the solid info amid the responses getting lost/inaccessible as a result. Despite the decreased anonymity, the loss of information for the hive mind is severer than on Reddit, where deleted stuff can still show up in search engines, or something like that. I don’t remember the details of how it works but it’s a mounting problem with Lenny’s design. Perhaps a better explanation by me elsewhere in this post: https://programming.dev/comment/24979223

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      Sometimes I comment, then immediately think about it and say “I really dgaf” then delete it. Look at me funny all you want.

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    Sometimes someone says something awful, and I just go the fuck off on them. Paragraphs of refutal, logic argument, citations. And I let it sit for a minute, and go back and delete it because I just don’t like my vibe and honestly what difference will it make?

    But then I get upvotes because some users can see deleted comments, and it makes me feel pretty good