Are you sure people are deleting their posts? The last time this came up people went nuts making assumptions about the stupid things users were doing deleting their posts, and it turned out to be a mod.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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I highly doubt that's why people delete their posts
What if I post a really stupid meme that I later regret
I consider the downvote button to be the “fuck off” button, which I reserve for toxic comments or posts made in bad faith. I try to be generous with upvotes and sparing with downvotes, but some people here go straight for the downvote button and pile on more downvotes when something is already downvoted. If I see someone getting downvoted heavily who is acting in good faith, I’ll give them an upvote, even if I don’t necessarily agree. Otherwise, withholding an upvote is what I consider the correct response when I don’t agree or am not interested.
I do often delete my comment if I’m told to fuck off by too many people, mainly because it’s the first thing I’ll see in my client the next time I login, which will make me less motivated to engage next time.
Okay but if you downvote someone you're basically telling them to delete it. So i guess that's other side of the coin, dont downvote unless you literally think the comment should be deleted.
How can you unilateral determine what the down vote means for everyone? I think most interpret it to mean either they disagree, or that they don't like what you said. Most people don't think everything they don't like should be deleted. That's called an echo chamber
But lemmy has flairs and this is important. Most of the people commenting here have a "dickhead" or "based" or "always horny" flair and that tells
My comments suck 90% of the time. Did I get a flair?
I should be kinder to myself. Maybe only 80% of the time.
I would assume that embarrassment drives most deletes here.
lol
It's fine to delete posts, except this one. This is peak lemmy.
You delete your posts because of karma.
I delete them because they display my embarrassing incompetence for all to see.
We are not the same.
No, that's actually exactly the same.
Great accounts leave it standing as is for the younger accounts to learn from
You're indexed somewhere anyway
I guess but sometimes there's nothing to learn from someone just stating some incorrect misinformation or something -- like if i make a comment "T is the chemical symbol for Tungsten", lm gonna delete that when im sober in the morning.
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what cowards were deleting posts in reddit?
Tons of people, especially frustrating when people would nuke their accounts and replace all their comments with random words as these were usually quite tech savvy people.
You go and look for a tech question and the top comment is some script generated mumbo jumbo.
I completely understand people not wanting to support reddit anymore but it's quite frustrating when you're just looking for answers.
That is/was generally a protest against reddit itself. To take away the free content people had given reddit and to reduce its value.
For the same reasons a lot of people moved here.
Reddit is really to blame in that case.
Na fuck reddit tho, i did that to my account reddit should shut down tomorrow the world will be a better place.
Don’t delete your stuff over downvotes ever. Say what you mean and mean what you say and if some people don’t like that oh well. The need for universal validation is killing human discourse
Being authentic means not everyone is going to like or agree with you all the time, it’s a good thing
Is anyone actually doing this though? A significant number?
How do you know?
But don't post misinformation or break rules. That's the only reason for downvotes anyway
That’s the only reason for downvotes anyway
Down votes are for whatever the person down voting wants it to be. There is no one reason
A lot of the time people downvote stuff because it's already downvoted.
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