Comment on What happened to @unionagainstdhmo?
Nath@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoKeeping in mind that this is new to us, we’re learning as it happens.
Deleting your account doesn’t appear to actually delete your posts/comments. It appears to just kill your profile page, making it so you can’t just go to /u/username and see your post/comment history. However you can still go past posts and see the previous user interaction.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Their comments in this thread are what made me notice it. Maybe they did actually deliberately choose to delete those, but I thought it seemed unlikely to be that, in context.
Nath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I should create and kill a user account to experiment and answer this authoritatively. Given that unionagainstdhmo’s posts and comments appear to have gone, while Baku’s have not, I suspect there is an option to delete all your content when you delete your account.
treevan@aus.social 4 weeks ago
@Nath @Zagorath I read 30 days. Mine took 30 days to delete from other instances, instantly from the home instance. One instance they reappeared and I contacted the Administrator to have them removed.
He said it was a bit of a fuck around to delete them from the database and it appears I was banned from server, not that I quit.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Oh, I’m glad I left this thread open to come back to later! Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen that Treevan still lives! Hope you’re doing well. Your contributions around here are sadly missed.
lodion@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
When banning a user we’re presented with a tickbox option to remove all posts/comments from them. Likely the admin did this rather than delve into the DB.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’m dealing with a similar issue on !environment@aussie.zone . I didn’t think ahead to copy those two stickied posts containing all the source links at the top of the page.
Now it seems i’ve lost them? Its a shame to lose all that useful work u/treevan and u/bandhmo did. I’ve started pulling together a number of links to recreate something similar, but i know i won’t capture the vast plethora of resources they’d gathered.
treevan@aus.social 4 weeks ago
Gorgritch: I still have the links stored away. I'll try a code block if no one minds me messing up the thread?
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Hooli dooli, Treevans on Mastodon! Hi, good to see ya!
Okay, this is great news! I’ve just been trying to understand what code blocking is. I’m not sure I understand it, but as long as the admins are fine with it, I definitely don’t mind the thread getting a little messy (temporarily?) to sort this.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I don’t know what the state of the Internet Archive is with the recent attacks but you could try to find a cached copy of those posts with the Wayback Machine.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
got them, thanks for that.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Oh good idea. Never done that before. I’ll go on tonight and have a look