Deleting a post because it got downvotes? Who are these babies who can’t take people not liking them?

I get that but there's also a certain "ugh" when a bunch of .ml folks find a post and want to yell at you about it.

That's one of fediverse's most underused selling points. Karma farming is impossible here.

I was on reddit for 10 years and have been on lemmy for 3. I'm still not sure what this is really supposed to mean.

There is absolutely a "lifetime" karma score available for users, its just not centered in peoples bios like it is on lemmy. But it absolutely exists..

And if people want to go for high scores more power to them. Get that dopamine where you can queen.

What if we aren't coming from Reddit? I had good karma way before the internet ever existed because I tried my best to treat the world around me with love and respect. Now that I'm older and knee-deep in the world's tech I find I've become a bit irascible. Maybe that's more a product of age than social engineering. I hope so.

I don't think it's just downvotes that are the reason posts are deleted. What's being ignored, is what follows after downvotes. And that is, users being antagonistic over nuanced posts because the posts don't contain the kind of brainrot-meme-lamejoke kind of content that is the norm.

And it is never a good feeling getting dogpiled on for absolutely no reason other than just not appeasing to whatever expectancy that is there. Additionally, when there isn't enough activity aside from that, people can feel like 'what's the point?' because they simply don't have enough numbers of people engaging.

So this creates this discouragement within them to keep bothering.

Is that why??? Oh man I was wondering why some people did that. Deleting their posts before I even have time to reply

karma is heavily abused by botters, spammers, and used as an excuse by reddit/mods to filter out people they dont like.

Devastating? Jeez.

If you want to make a code change proposal, go ahead and make one. Otherwise, deletion is a feature offered to Lemmy users to use as they see fit. In fact some earlier (unrelated) proposals to speed up the software were rejected on the grounds that deletion is required to actually scrub the entry from the database, rather than simply making it inaccessible through the web. The scrubbing requirement may have been abandoned by now though.

I half remember a Lemmy client (Voyager Jerboa?) with a user setting to automatically delete any post or comment that the user makes after 7 days or something. It had nothing to do with karma. I didn't use that setting but it seemed reasonable to me. Lemmy is a discussion forum not a long term archive.

I do like the idea of adding a wiki feature to Lemmy, to hold info of long term value to a community. Reddit already has something like that.**

Deleting a post doesn't delete the comments, it just makes then undiscoverable/inaccessible. See https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5525

RESPECTABILITY POLITICS IS EVERYTHINNNNNNGGGG

Not that I care about it, but mBin definitely does have a lifetime reputation score you can find on someone's profile if you really care to see it

Internet points aren't the only reason people delete their posts/comments, though?

I think people should think seriously about deleting posts, but comments that don't contribute to the discussion for whatever reason definitely have a shelf life.

And that's aside from the old "a comment you made 10 years ago in another life gets you fired/cancelled" issues due to times changing, some shitlord quoting you out of context, etc, etc.

I figured it was just instances culling old posts without a lot of engagement. I’ve had posts or comments that I’ve made get deleted and I didn’t request them

People actually cared about Reddit karma?

Just don't post any real shit post in the sublemmy shitpost. That will get you a ban. Only picture of fairies and unicorns are allowed for these poor sensitive souls. I though lemmy would be more educated than reddit but unfortunately there are a small group of loud little bitches everywhere ruining the world for everyone else.

On one hand, yes I find it irritating the way people treat their profile like some kind of extension of their personality and only post comments that will be well received.

One the other hand, I don't really see much "knowledge" being removed from the fediverse. I don't really understand how this behavior is devastating to communities.