I'll delete my replies when I've been eating too many crayons that evening and the reply ended up being dumb as dog shit...
Though, I'd consider deleting my posts now because AI is scouring this place and training on it I almost guarantee.
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I've deleted a few comments where I read further in the thread and realized somebody already said what I said, or I interpreted the topic incorrectly and my comment was meaningless, or some other reason I thought it just didn't add anything. I think I deleted an Ask Lemmy question one time because I almost immediately found the answer myself or decided the question really didn't make any sense.
Perhaps Lemmy should offer an option to delete the OP and retain comments?
I would also like to see some of the comments even after the original post is deleted if the post author is ok with leaving them up.
That would be nice.
Can't reply to Some Amateur's removed comment, just want to say, I enjoyed your contribution! And that could indeed also be a valid reason
Personally the app I use sucks, so I realize I commented on the wrong thread and I delete the duplicate
Lack of commitment
Because they later felt embarrassed by their question.
It was with great pain that I recently deleted something like 50 to 100 of my own posts. They were all political. Lots of great discussions. But we live in a time where having the wrong kind of history on social media could make you a target either now or in the future. I'm sure a lot of that is still floating around one way or another but if I can reduce any spotlights on my ass it's something I felt I had to do.
Since then I haven't deleted anything. I try to keep my posts non-political. In my real life I am now focusing on bettering myself. I've given up on trying to change the country or anything like that. It can all they to ash. I've ran out of fucks to give.
But hey, I'm contributing on !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online again, so there's that.
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Sometimes I do it for comments, and it's just because I don't really like what I wrote. I read it and it's just banal, and I'm like, "you're not moving the discourse forward at all."
What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit. They're their posts, they have the right to do it, but I'm like, c'mon, Reddit isn't suffering from it. They're selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.
I think that's like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.