I’m pretty confused about one thing.

When deleting your own comment, there always stays a placeholder in its place. I noticed this with my own and other lemmings posts.

So far so good, but i tried to reply to a deleted comment by another lemming and above the reply box was the full comment the other user deleted.

I mean the full content of the comment that was deleted.

Is this the normal behavior in Lemmy or is it Sync?

I mean, i want my deleted comments to disappear and not just hidden and for everyone available to read.

Please try it out and reply to my deleted comment in this post. Just above the reply textarea you’ll see my deleted comment.

    • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      I can’t believe you said this!!!

      But seriously this means comments aren’t truly being deleted

      • kamenLady.@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I came across some that had:

        [This comment was deleted by an automated system]

        But that was like 1 in 10 deleted comments i checked.

        • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          That’s probably people overwriting their comments before they delete them. I wrote a script to do this before I nuked my Reddit accounts.

          • kamenLady.@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            TIL

            I think i’ll just asdasd the content of sensible comments before deleting them.

            For most comments i delete, i actually don’t really care, now that i think about it.

            I was just surprised, to be able read the comment.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      yeah the last few weeks whenever we delete something, it will still show our username in perpetuity, but to make my actual comment go away I manually delete the comment And replace it with a hashtag.

      Thereafter, people can still upvote the nothingness comment or downvote the nothingness comment and they can still reply to the nothingness comment If they’re weird and they want to, and sometimes they are weird and they do.

    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Your comment show up as deleted for me. Deletions take a while to sync across instances, like anything else in the fediverse.