As a regular contributor to discussion across a wide spectrum of Lemmy (and other fediverse) communities, I’ve come to see some people who will submit a post, get replies and then delete that post.
While I understand that this is a feature of the platform, in my opinion, it’s extremely disrespectful to anyone who took the time to provide a considered, or otherwise, response.
While we’re building a global community, is there any appetite to discourage such behaviour, or are we okay with this experience?
One idea might be to update the platform to “zombie” a post when its author deletes it, leaving it exactly where it is, but removing the author.
Anyone?
Mods should still be able to remove. But if a user deletes their post with comments under it, the most it should do is show deleted user or however reddit does it, and remove the body of the post. But not touch the comments.