Comment on Is there a way to show or view replies to deleted comments?

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While true, I don’t think this would happen as often as you might think.

  For example, lets say some nefarious actor starts some comment thread and later decides to delete their comment “to own the Libs” or whatever they say now. That entire threads responses were meaningless. They were argumentation and flamefighting. If the comment information was incorrect, removing it as a deleted comment is more beneficial than leaving it up for others to read and ignore the context.

  Lets say someone decides to delete their entire account and comment history. Reading responses are going to be difficult to understand the context. Most of the time these responses are to specific issues or comments, not typically a general answer, as general answers are usually top level comments. In this case, if someone later has the same question, it can be answered again later when that person asks. There may be more updated information between then and the hidden reply that changes the information, and there is no need to retain outdated answers to a question.

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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personal view.

    If I make a comment, only the mod and myself should be able to remove it.

    It should not be up to a user I reply to if my comment should be visible.

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    • redpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is what I want. How can I get this?

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      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You want to delete others comments?

        Mod your own community or create your own instance.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But why force that deletion instead of letting people choose if something is outdated/irrelevant/confusing? It doesn’t cause any harm to leave up the information in case it helps.

    If a user doesn’t like it, they can just skip threads with deleted comments, or enable that setting themselves (depending on the frontend)

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