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Nath@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoI 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.
treevan@aus.social 3 weeks ago
Hi Zagorath. I'm doing fine, the usual etc. I do hope that you're OK too. I'm still around and still reading occasionally, I didn't leave for mental health reasons or anything like that, I left because I was getting downvoted for opinions about my employment/passion and I figured "fuck everyone then" because while I understand the downvotes don't mean much, they mean that my opinion wasn't required or needed in the conversation. Funnily enough, it was Baku that pushed me over the edge and I see that they're gone too. Yeesh.
I hope you enjoyed the election. Maybe not who won but your work with it. Keep up with writing your opinions, they're worth reading.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Ha, yeah it’s always fun work. And even the result was pleasantly surprising in some ways, considering 4 weeks ago we were expecting a total wipe-out for Labor.
I hope you’re finding the Aussie Mastodon community more to your liking and more enjoyable, but also I’d like you to know that at least from me, your opinions were valued here very much.
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.
Nath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
There’s also purge. It’s a super-remove that will go through the database and delete every record the user ever existed. I use it sparingly, since the record of purging a user doesn’t even appear in the modlog (no instance admin would ever abuse this power, right?). Can’t log a purge because that user never existed. Even regular-level spam bots don’t get the purge treatment.
I can purge comments, also. I’ve even done it once for a mod. I forget the circumstances of how we reached that point, something about a ban not removing content properly? It was probably hate-related in some form.
treevan@aus.social 4 weeks ago
@lodion I was already dropped as a user, I think he said he had to reinstate me to ban me.