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Why can't we properly delete comments? (feddit.uk)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I "delete" a comment, all it does is replace the text with "deleted by creator". It doesn't even hide my username. This is different from previous behaviour where the comment was entirely removed from the public view.

I should be in control of my comment. If I want to delete it then it should be entirely removed - at least from the public view. I don't want to make comments knowing that I'm permenantly etching my username into the stone of the thread forever with no ability to delete it. I'm highly put off from engaging now that I can't reliably delete what I write.

Being able to undo the deletion is fine but the undo really should only last 1h or maybe 24h before the comment is properly deleted.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

You’ll probably be unhappy to learn that federated comments may never be deleted. The external server has to both listen for the delete request and adhere to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I know that. But at least that's not really publicly listed for anyone to load from my home server in the original comment thread. And that's beyond the server host's control anyway; it's completely within the server host's control to decide to delete something properly on request or not, so choosing to not delete it is just weird.

Rather than having some control over my comment in the source thread on the source server, I now have zero control at all. That's not a good user experience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rather than having some control over [thing I put on the internet], I ~~now~~ have zero control at all.

Correct. Everything you post online can and will be instantly archived by data hoarders and data corporations.

That's not a good user experience.

That's the World Wide Web for you, we should have stopped at gopher.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everything you post online can and will be instantly archived by data hoarders and data corporations

I don't agree with your implication that because someone somewhere might be archiving my comment, then there's no point in giving users a proper delete button.

There's also a huge difference between my comment being publicly accessible in the original thread versus stored elsewhere in some archivist's database. Obviously nobody can control the latter but that doesn't mean there's no point in controlling the former.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's a distinction without a difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

maybe to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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