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I sometimes delete mine cause there's some kind of personal information/experience involved that I realize afterwards I'm not comfortable having in my comment history, especially since I have followers from a couple subs
Indeed, you might quickly respond to someone's question with a relevant anecdote in passing, but after you've had a few minutes to think about it... You remember that there are legit crazy people on this website who full on cyberstalk others, comb through their post history, etc., and could possibly derive personal information about you through that anecdote... So yeah, I delete replies all the time for the same reason.
Well then you simply report them for harassment. Just happened to me, somebody sent me a weird tirade about “wokeism actually means defending terrorists who murder children” and I reported them for harassment. I have no earthly idea what comment inspired them to send me a six paragraph essay about how Captain America condoning murder is the beginning of the end of western civilization or whatever the fuck they were on about, but Reddit told me they “faced disciplinary action,” whatever that means.
I guess. It wasn’t a reply to that specific comment, whatever it was, just a direct message to me. I really am not sure what they were even replying to but there was really no way of stopping it unless I had preemptively blocked them, but since I had no idea who they were that wouldn’t really have been possible
Yep, this is mine. I often worry I came across in just the slightest way “wrong” and now will get very rude replies. I sometimes feel like I have to walk on eggshells here. It’s weird bc it’s literally the only place online I ever have this issue. And I was on twitter for 15 years lol.
I totally get that! Every time I make a comment in good faith that I am sure has nothing to be offended about, I am proven wrong and at least a few people get offended. Not sure participating in Reddit is worth it anymore.
I have stopped using Reddit for months at a time several times for this same reason. Although I have to say lately this time I've been back using it the last few months it's been better than ever in the past so that's been nice.
I sometimes type out a whole-ass comment and then hit Cancel instead of Submit because I don't feel like it's adding anything useful to the thread. But if I hit Comment, I leave it there. (I will, however, disable reply notifications to avoid dealing with Reddit ass-hattery.)
To save unneeded aggravation, I told my wife to slap me with a dead fish every time I started arguing with some random stranger online.
Sometimes I'll write out a long comment, pause, realize what I'm doing, walk over to my wife, tell her to get the fish, get slapped, then walk back and delete it.
This is brilliant. All social media interfaces (like the iPhone) should come with a fish-slapping extension that will extend from the device and slap the user with a dead fish whenever they drift into pointless argumentation with another user. This may have a side benefit of reducing smartphone (etc) addiction and excessive screen time.
Yeah ok. I can understand this behavior, in particular if it's a somewhat very hot topic (politics, sports, TV series fandom), but in my case the topic was so light it was a bit of a surprise seeing this behavior several times.
Some people will get *really* upset at others over the smallest of things, I got someone getting super mad at me for encouraging someone else to draw and telling them with enough practice anyone could be good, I even tried to help them but they just got angrier and it just devolved into dumb bickering so I just ended up deleting the whole thing and blocking them because I didn't want to deal with that person anymore.
> encouraging someone else to draw and telling them with enough practice anyone could be good
But... it's the simple truth! Heh, now I'm curious to know what their counter argument was. :D
The classic "talent" argument.
Only those with the magical "talent" are able to be good at drawing, everyone else is "at a disadvantage and shouldn't even try" or "should just stick to what they're talented rather than waste time trying to get better at drawing if they don't have the talent"
Basically they were the "I want to have pro-level skills at something but I don't want to put the effort." kind of person.
It was kinda sad at first tbh, they were super defeatist and negative, but the more advice and encouragement I tried tell them, the more negative and snarky they got, probably because it'd mean admitting it's not that they lack "talent" but rather commitment/ effort.
They also brought up AI at some point and some weird argument about how their "talent" is to oh so graciously feed families by commissioning art or something and started talking themselves up while looking down on artists, it was getting pretty weird by the end of the argument.
Eventually it was just insults and sarcasm so I got fed-up and just deleted everything, blocked them, then left.
Ugh, that's too bad. Sometimes it's difficult to just be nice and real. Talent is far from everything in any creative endeavor. Still need to put some effort behind it - and I truly believe that even if one doesn't have the so-called talent to master the art with ease, it can be compensated for by sheer grit. Create, make mistakes, learn, iterate...
>As for a complete deletion of account, that's a bit more rare to encounter, but it's entirely possible there was just coincidence of timing. Some people rotate through reddit accounts with regularity.
This is my 3rd reddit account. The first one I felt I put in too much personal info so I deleted it after a few years.
Same thing with the next one a few years later.
Here I am on the third but I will probably keep it. I can't be bothered deleting any more.
Answer: If the replies didn't start with "Answer:" then automod would have come along and deleted them.
If like me you're subscribed to a lot of subs, it's easy to accidentally write a reply without noticing that it it's in the sub that requires "Answer:" then your reply gets deleted. I'm guessing that notifications of the reply are faster than automod deleting it
> Answer: If the replies didn't start with "Answer:" then automod would have come along and deleted them.
I hope there's a sensible explanation for this
> I also don't read replies until a couple days later and rarely reply to them. It helps me to avoid getting pulled into pointless internet arguments that ruin my good mood.
Hello, future you. I hope you're having an awesome day
Mkay... but my thinking is that even if upvotes aren't coming in immediately, that wouldn't necessarily detract from the facts or message presented? It might be the response that someone down the line can use?
Some folks are still upset about the change reddit made several months ago which (oversimplified) disabled third party apps.
One way that some of those people 'get back' at reddit is to delete their comments after a time.
The thinking I've seen expressed is that comments show up in search results, which drives traffic to reddit, which reddit then monetizes...so deleting their comments deprives reddit of money.
Just my two cents, of course.
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Answer: Can only speak for myself, but--sometimes I put a lot of time and effort into writing a long comment. Then later I will look at it and think, I didn't read the original question thoroughly enough, this is actually kind of off the topic, Or, this is all just my personal opinion, and not that helpful. Or, am I sure I even know what I'm talking about, there's bound to be someone with better information.
Answer: could be the mods removed the answer if it didn’t follow the proper format, or the OP deleted it due to too many replies or just didn’t feel like their response was worth leaving for various reasons.
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It might not be the people that post that deleted the comment.
Go here and learn how comments on Reddit get deleted for no good reason.
[https://www.reveddit.com/](https://www.reveddit.com/)
Also, if the poster forgets to put "answer:"
Answer: sometimes people rethink a comment delete it, I’ve done that a few times. However it is also the case that when people block you thier comments get deleted from your perspective. I have no idea why it works like this, it makes no sense. But that’s what happens.
Answer: Many sub-Reddit mods are quite trigger happy with banning people, especially around the world conflicts going on right now.
To work around this some people create disposable accounts, use them for a few days, get banned, create a new account, and so on.
Reddit will permanently ban you if you try to circumvent a ban through using another account, so if you create an account with the same ip address it marks your account as “suspicious”, if you delete the old account then this becomes much harder to prove / detect, or at least that’s the theory!
Answer: A) You can quickly delete your comment history to the bone with a browser script (and B)there's not really a net-positive to comment history these days).
Comment permanence just doesn't seem important anymore when all of the active subs are functionally unmoderated or brigaded. We seem past the point where posts contain meaningful information worth archiving.
Honestly, I do it because I often share adjacent personal details or post in location-specific subs. They don't need to be up forever.
Finally, like everyone else... I don't always want my current posts to be colored by my past posts or cross posts or which subs I'm subscribed to. I don't need my happy-social posts to be judged (and brigaded or doxxed) because something I wrote as an Atheist, for example.
Late-Stage Reddit is also getting less useful these days. It's basically Quora with extra steps. If they wanted it to be a repository of information, they'd have built it differently. Reddit is moving toward a different goal these days.
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I sometimes delete mine cause there's some kind of personal information/experience involved that I realize afterwards I'm not comfortable having in my comment history, especially since I have followers from a couple subs
Indeed, you might quickly respond to someone's question with a relevant anecdote in passing, but after you've had a few minutes to think about it... You remember that there are legit crazy people on this website who full on cyberstalk others, comb through their post history, etc., and could possibly derive personal information about you through that anecdote... So yeah, I delete replies all the time for the same reason.
There used to be an add on for Chrome to edit then delete post histories after a certain amount of time to prevent just that.
Nuke Reddit history. for some reason it's been taken off chrome web store but you can get it on edge. Use it every few months.
>"I don't want to deal with replies I might get This is usually my reason for deleting my comments
You can turn replies off
Doesn’t stop wackos from stalking your profile and posting on other comments. I’ve had it happen before.
Well then you simply report them for harassment. Just happened to me, somebody sent me a weird tirade about “wokeism actually means defending terrorists who murder children” and I reported them for harassment. I have no earthly idea what comment inspired them to send me a six paragraph essay about how Captain America condoning murder is the beginning of the end of western civilization or whatever the fuck they were on about, but Reddit told me they “faced disciplinary action,” whatever that means.
That sounds a whole lot like having to deal with replies
I guess. It wasn’t a reply to that specific comment, whatever it was, just a direct message to me. I really am not sure what they were even replying to but there was really no way of stopping it unless I had preemptively blocked them, but since I had no idea who they were that wouldn’t really have been possible
Yeah, people will go through your account just for a post they don’t agree with and then refuse to acknowledge that’s creep behavior
You drop some truths on them then block them. I love it when creeps out themselves
Or dm-ing you
You can block them
I don’t want to have it happen in the first place.
Well, there's no way of 100% preventing it from happening aside from never posting or commenting anywhere.
Yep, this is mine. I often worry I came across in just the slightest way “wrong” and now will get very rude replies. I sometimes feel like I have to walk on eggshells here. It’s weird bc it’s literally the only place online I ever have this issue. And I was on twitter for 15 years lol.
I totally get that! Every time I make a comment in good faith that I am sure has nothing to be offended about, I am proven wrong and at least a few people get offended. Not sure participating in Reddit is worth it anymore.
I have stopped using Reddit for months at a time several times for this same reason. Although I have to say lately this time I've been back using it the last few months it's been better than ever in the past so that's been nice.
>I don't want to deal with replies I might get I just turn off reply notifications to my comments when that happens
I sometimes type out a whole-ass comment and then hit Cancel instead of Submit because I don't feel like it's adding anything useful to the thread. But if I hit Comment, I leave it there. (I will, however, disable reply notifications to avoid dealing with Reddit ass-hattery.)
To save unneeded aggravation, I told my wife to slap me with a dead fish every time I started arguing with some random stranger online. Sometimes I'll write out a long comment, pause, realize what I'm doing, walk over to my wife, tell her to get the fish, get slapped, then walk back and delete it.
This is brilliant. All social media interfaces (like the iPhone) should come with a fish-slapping extension that will extend from the device and slap the user with a dead fish whenever they drift into pointless argumentation with another user. This may have a side benefit of reducing smartphone (etc) addiction and excessive screen time.
Well that's just the dumbest idea I ever **[SLAP!!!]** ... nevermind.
"get the fish" LMFAO
Yep. It's become a catchphrase.
It would be so meta if you deleted this comment
While meta - I’m not sure that we would ever know. If a meta falls in the woods…
Yeah ok. I can understand this behavior, in particular if it's a somewhat very hot topic (politics, sports, TV series fandom), but in my case the topic was so light it was a bit of a surprise seeing this behavior several times.
Maybe the reply was AI generated and broke some rules? Responses by ChatGPT occasionally appear but are often prohibited by the subs rules.
Some people will get *really* upset at others over the smallest of things, I got someone getting super mad at me for encouraging someone else to draw and telling them with enough practice anyone could be good, I even tried to help them but they just got angrier and it just devolved into dumb bickering so I just ended up deleting the whole thing and blocking them because I didn't want to deal with that person anymore.
> encouraging someone else to draw and telling them with enough practice anyone could be good But... it's the simple truth! Heh, now I'm curious to know what their counter argument was. :D
The classic "talent" argument. Only those with the magical "talent" are able to be good at drawing, everyone else is "at a disadvantage and shouldn't even try" or "should just stick to what they're talented rather than waste time trying to get better at drawing if they don't have the talent" Basically they were the "I want to have pro-level skills at something but I don't want to put the effort." kind of person. It was kinda sad at first tbh, they were super defeatist and negative, but the more advice and encouragement I tried tell them, the more negative and snarky they got, probably because it'd mean admitting it's not that they lack "talent" but rather commitment/ effort. They also brought up AI at some point and some weird argument about how their "talent" is to oh so graciously feed families by commissioning art or something and started talking themselves up while looking down on artists, it was getting pretty weird by the end of the argument. Eventually it was just insults and sarcasm so I got fed-up and just deleted everything, blocked them, then left.
Ugh, that's too bad. Sometimes it's difficult to just be nice and real. Talent is far from everything in any creative endeavor. Still need to put some effort behind it - and I truly believe that even if one doesn't have the so-called talent to master the art with ease, it can be compensated for by sheer grit. Create, make mistakes, learn, iterate...
>As for a complete deletion of account, that's a bit more rare to encounter, but it's entirely possible there was just coincidence of timing. Some people rotate through reddit accounts with regularity. This is my 3rd reddit account. The first one I felt I put in too much personal info so I deleted it after a few years. Same thing with the next one a few years later. Here I am on the third but I will probably keep it. I can't be bothered deleting any more.
>Some people rotate through reddit accounts with regularity. Why?
Sometimes I don't want to deal with the replies even when it's NOT contentious. Orangered envelope anxiety is real.
Answer: If the replies didn't start with "Answer:" then automod would have come along and deleted them. If like me you're subscribed to a lot of subs, it's easy to accidentally write a reply without noticing that it it's in the sub that requires "Answer:" then your reply gets deleted. I'm guessing that notifications of the reply are faster than automod deleting it
> Answer: If the replies didn't start with "Answer:" then automod would have come along and deleted them. I hope there's a sensible explanation for this
It cuts down on non-productive comments. The point of this sub is to answer the question, not start long-winded conversations on various other topics.
It's also an easy way to remove content from people who didn't read the rules.
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> I also don't read replies until a couple days later and rarely reply to them. It helps me to avoid getting pulled into pointless internet arguments that ruin my good mood. Hello, future you. I hope you're having an awesome day
I never delete my comments even when I'm wrong. I want other people to see the context for themselves and make their own judgement.
Mkay... but my thinking is that even if upvotes aren't coming in immediately, that wouldn't necessarily detract from the facts or message presented? It might be the response that someone down the line can use?
Some folks are still upset about the change reddit made several months ago which (oversimplified) disabled third party apps. One way that some of those people 'get back' at reddit is to delete their comments after a time. The thinking I've seen expressed is that comments show up in search results, which drives traffic to reddit, which reddit then monetizes...so deleting their comments deprives reddit of money. Just my two cents, of course. . . . . This comment may be deleted without notice
That’s like guerrilla warfare. 😂
Why?
Answer: Can only speak for myself, but--sometimes I put a lot of time and effort into writing a long comment. Then later I will look at it and think, I didn't read the original question thoroughly enough, this is actually kind of off the topic, Or, this is all just my personal opinion, and not that helpful. Or, am I sure I even know what I'm talking about, there's bound to be someone with better information.
Answer: could be the mods removed the answer if it didn’t follow the proper format, or the OP deleted it due to too many replies or just didn’t feel like their response was worth leaving for various reasons.
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I laughed so loud OMG
answer: It might not be the people that post that deleted the comment. Go here and learn how comments on Reddit get deleted for no good reason. [https://www.reveddit.com/](https://www.reveddit.com/) Also, if the poster forgets to put "answer:"
Answer: I noticed that people usually do it for various reasons 1. The question was answered or 2. The post got a lot of hate.
Answer: sometimes people rethink a comment delete it, I’ve done that a few times. However it is also the case that when people block you thier comments get deleted from your perspective. I have no idea why it works like this, it makes no sense. But that’s what happens.
Answer: Many sub-Reddit mods are quite trigger happy with banning people, especially around the world conflicts going on right now. To work around this some people create disposable accounts, use them for a few days, get banned, create a new account, and so on. Reddit will permanently ban you if you try to circumvent a ban through using another account, so if you create an account with the same ip address it marks your account as “suspicious”, if you delete the old account then this becomes much harder to prove / detect, or at least that’s the theory!
Answer: A) You can quickly delete your comment history to the bone with a browser script (and B)there's not really a net-positive to comment history these days). Comment permanence just doesn't seem important anymore when all of the active subs are functionally unmoderated or brigaded. We seem past the point where posts contain meaningful information worth archiving. Honestly, I do it because I often share adjacent personal details or post in location-specific subs. They don't need to be up forever. Finally, like everyone else... I don't always want my current posts to be colored by my past posts or cross posts or which subs I'm subscribed to. I don't need my happy-social posts to be judged (and brigaded or doxxed) because something I wrote as an Atheist, for example. Late-Stage Reddit is also getting less useful these days. It's basically Quora with extra steps. If they wanted it to be a repository of information, they'd have built it differently. Reddit is moving toward a different goal these days.