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HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 4 days agoThank you for looking into that. That would explain there not being a mod log entry about it. I wish I knew how to see that’s what happened myself without bothering an admin, if possible.
Which helps me pivot onto my next point, which is probably not within your wheelhouse, but:
Why on Earth would all future viewing/replying to comments be "Error!"ed? I understand the post itself being pseudo-deleted for OPs’ privacy’s sake, but having a discussion pretend to not exist or be bugged because the OP we’ve forgotten long ago is frustrating.
ieh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yep, lemmy dev wheelhouse not mine, and I will say that one of the nice things about being an admin is that I can see deleted items - for a while until they’re permanently deleted. heh.
Design philosophy… I find it irritating that the comments I delete are still out there at all, so I’ve gotten in the habit of editing then deleting them.
The flip side - if we’re comparing Lemmy to Reddit though - is that scoring you see is not fudged, and you can see your votes happen in real time. If there’s a delay in applying the vote, the spinny stays until it happens. With reddit, I’d refresh to make sure my upvote stuck because a lot of times it didn’t, just silently fail, and that was irritating.
So it just comes down to different devs making different choices, I suppose.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah there’s tons of upsides to Lemmy/the Fediverse over Reddit, in my opinion. We could cite a bunch of them.
This happens to be one of the downsides - unclear “Error!” which is just “OP deleted their post.”