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.

  • RobboOP
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    10 months ago

    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.