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

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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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