Are certain removals obscured from public view?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨support@lemmy.world⁩

There was a lively discussion under the following post:

Under which, I received this reply in my inbox:

Both are now inaccessible, both from the lemmy.world I was accessing them through and after a fruitless search for the original post on their instance. All I see now, which you likely see as well, is an unspecified “Error!”

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I perused their mod log but it’s like the post (and its comments) no longer exist.

How would I investigate what happened myself, apart from asking their admins/mods? Is this an intentional act or a bug?

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Davel23@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The entire post was deleted by its author.

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- HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks; how did you know that without mod/admin access?
  
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  - Davel23@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Just scroll up to the top, it should say there.
    
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ieh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
https://i.imgur.com/9Kbtdz1.png

Just to confirm, deleted by the creator. (excessive blurring just as a habit since the author chose to delete it)

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- HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thank you for looking into that. That would explain there not being a mod log entry about it. I wish I knew how to see that’s what happened myself without bothering an admin, if possible.
  
  Which helps me pivot onto my next point, which is probably not within your wheelhouse, but:
  
  Why on Earth would all future viewing/replying to comments be "Error!"ed? I understand the post itself being pseudo-deleted for OPs’ privacy’s sake, but having a discussion pretend to not exist or be bugged because the OP we’ve forgotten long ago is frustrating.
  
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  - ieh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yep, lemmy dev wheelhouse not mine, and I will say that one of the nice things about being an admin is that I can see deleted items - for a while until they’re permanently deleted. heh.
    
    Design philosophy… I find it irritating that the comments I delete are still out there at all, so I’ve gotten in the habit of editing then deleting them.
    
    The flip side - if we’re comparing Lemmy to Reddit though - is that scoring you see is not fudged, and you can see your votes happen in real time. If there’s a delay in applying the vote, the spinny stays until it happens. With reddit, I’d refresh to make sure my upvote stuck because a lot of times it didn’t, just silently fail, and that was irritating.
    
    So it just comes down to different devs making different choices, I suppose.
    
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