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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

While sometimes there can be some helpful information in replies to deleted posts or comments, the vast, vast majority of those kinds of threads are just flamewars and arguing

This really depends on the subreddit/community

Some people like to delete their comments for privacy, because they want to move instances, etc. It doesn’t make sense to have that remove entire chains of comments with it. I also don’t think people intend for that to happen when deleting comments.

Mods should have a “nuke thread” button to autoremove all child comments when there’s a mess like you said. Users shouldn’t have that ability, even if they intended for that in the first place

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redpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This was the reason for this post. It has happened toe quite a few times already. When I take a bunch of time to make a well-thought-out reply and link a bunch of references in a discussion, I don’t want all that effort to effectively disappear when the original commentor just decides they are embarrassed or don’t want to continue and just nukes the thread.

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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
While I agree that mods should get a sort of mass moderation function, I still believe a user deleted comment hiding replies as beneficial.

If a person deleted their comments for privacy, they obviously are not nefariously trying to destroy a comment thread. Usually. However, if a person chooses to delete their comment for privacy reasons, what about comments that quote your deleted comment? The quote text doesn’t get deleted. That’s a privacy issue, is it not? Should all replies to a comment be string searched to delete quoted text? That would be a rather expensive API request. But, hiding the replies would help. A person would have to know who replied and go to their profile searching specifically for that quoted text to find it if the replies get hidden upon delete.

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- otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I guess if it was a privacy issue, it might be a different conversation. I think in that case though, it’s a weird way of solving the issue.
  
  If a person deleted their comments for privacy, they obviously are not nefariously trying to destroy a comment thread.
  
  That’s the problem though isn’t it. They don’t intend to destroy it but it happens anyways. So now even if someone wants to delete their own comment, there’s an incentive to not do that since it would delete everything below it.
  
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