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Deleting a Comment (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by kamenlady@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm pretty confused about one thing.

When deleting your own comment, there always stays a placeholder in its place. I noticed this with my own and other lemmings posts.

So far so good, but i tried to reply to a deleted comment by another lemming and above the reply box was the full comment the other user deleted.

I mean the full content of the comment that was deleted.

Is this the normal behavior in Lemmy or is it Sync?

I mean, i want my deleted comments to disappear and not just hidden and for everyone available to read.

Please try it out and reply to my deleted comment in this post. Just above the reply textarea you'll see my deleted comment.

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[–] freamon@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Lemmy let's you un-delete anything you've deleted, so nothing really gets nuked (it seems to be the way these things work anyway, that it's just a 'deleted' flag that's flipped between true and false).

On the one hand, it's a Lemmy problem - I can see you're comment using the API:

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/comment?id=8986376' \
     --header 'accept: application/json'

=>
{
  "comment_view": {
    "comment": {
      "id": 8986376,
      "creator_id": 399371,
      "post_id": 13748490,
      "content": "See what i mean? I deleted this!",
      "removed": false,
      "published": "2024-03-31T09:48:22.897008Z",
      "deleted": true,
      "ap_id": "https://lemmy.world/comment/8986376",
      "local": true,
      "path": "0.8986376",
      "distinguished": false,
      "language_id": 37
     ...

But there's also a bug with Sync in that it's not checking the flag if someone try to reply.

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This seems like a massive problem. I should have the right to completely remove content I post.

[–] example@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

fwiw, every week or so there is a scheduled task that permanently overwrites contents of deleted comments.

fyi @freamon@lemmy.world

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