How is this possible?

    • OtterAEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I think part of the issue is that you can undo the deletion of your own posts, which is a nice feature to have.

      Maybe what we need is:

      • hide: does what “delete” does now
      • delete: with a warning that the action is irreversible

      Add in a warning when posting or commenting that hiding/deleting may not federate

      • Dave.@aussie.zone
        5·
        1 year ago

        Content of deleted comment:

        Try this comment that I’m going to delete.

        I use boost as it shows deleted comments as “deleted by creator”, but you can reply to deleted comments and when you do you can see and quote it

        Just like I have now. So what I assume is happening is that the backend just marks the comment as deleted and leaves everything in place, and it’s up to the front end to handle that.

          • Dave.@aussie.zone
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yeah - personally I don’t mind it this way. To me, “Deleted by creator” is simply something more along the lines of, “I’d like to retract my previous statement”.

            Sometimes I get curious and reply to a deleted comment to see what they said, but generally I let it slide.

            • Gurfaild@feddit.de
              1·
              1 year ago

              The problem with that is that comments that are removed by moderators behave the same way - that might actually cause legal problems if someone posts something that you’re obligated to remove instead of just hiding it