@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone’s comments were deleted in a thread I was just looking at, and I went onto their profile and it also appears to have been deleted? Anyone have any knowledge about them? It’s sad if we’ve lost such a long-time excellent member of this community.
No idea, would assume they’ve deleted their account for some reason. I’ve certainly not taken any action, and am certain @Nath@aussie.zone hasn’t either.
Definitely not I. The whole point of giving you guys full control of your accounts is you can do this to your own account any time you like. I heard last week that we lost Baku, also. That one was sad, I was going to share a year’s streak of my own (for running) after he shared a year of Duolingo. But, he was gone.
Maybe they’ll be back one day?
Oh no. That’s sad too!
I do wish that deleting your account didn’t automatically delete all of your posts & comments on Lemmy. It’s one thing for that to be an option people can have if they want, but I doubt most users deleting their accounts are doing so because they want to clear out everything they’ve ever said.
Keeping in mind that this is new to us, we’re learning as it happens.
Deleting your account doesn’t appear to actually delete your posts/comments. It appears to just kill your profile page, making it so you can’t just go to /u/username and see your post/comment history. However you can still go past posts and see the previous user interaction.
Their comments in this thread are what made me notice it. Maybe they did actually deliberately choose to delete those, but I thought it seemed unlikely to be that, in context.
I’m dealing with a similar issue on !environment@aussie.zone . I didn’t think ahead to copy those two stickied posts containing all the source links at the top of the page.
Now it seems i’ve lost them? Its a shame to lose all that useful work u/treevan and u/bandhmo did. I’ve started pulling together a number of links to recreate something similar, but i know i won’t capture the vast plethora of resources they’d gathered.
Gorgritch: I still have the links stored away. I’ll try a code block if no one minds me messing up the thread?
Hooli dooli, Treevans on Mastodon! Hi, good to see ya!
Okay, this is great news! I’ve just been trying to understand what code blocking is. I’m not sure I understand it, but as long as the admins are fine with it, I definitely don’t mind the thread getting a little messy (temporarily?) to sort this.
@Gorgritch_umie_killa I just meant that we should do this in DM or an email or something. There is a character limit here too so I’ll try in sections.
\*Please comment if you know of more\* \*\*News\*\* \- [https://theconversation.com/au/environment](https://theconversation.com/au/environment) \- [https://www.theguardian.com/au/environment](https://www.theguardian.com/au/environment) \- [https://www.abc.net.au/news/environment](https://www.abc.net.au/news/environment) \- [https://www.abc.net.au/news/science](https://www.abc.net.au/news/science) \- [https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural](https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural) \- [https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-news/](https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-news/) \- [https://thefifthestate.com.au/](https://thefifthestate.com.au/) \- [https://michaelwest.com.au/](https://michaelwest.com.au/) \- [https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/](https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/) \- [https://www.sbs.com.au/news/topic/environment](https://www.sbs.com.au/news/topic/environment) \- [https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment](https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment) \- [https://newmatilda.com/category/environment/](https://newmatilda.com/category/environment/) \- [https://www.themonthly.com.au/topic/environment](https://www.themonthly.com.au/topic/environment) \- [https://johnmenadue.com/category/enviroment/](https://johnmenadue.com/category/enviroment/) \- [https://johnmenadue.com/category/public-policy/climate/](https://johnmenadue.com/category/public-policy/climate/) \- [https://inqld.com.au/news/](https://inqld.com.au/news/) \- [https://indaily.com.au/news/science-and-tech/](https://indaily.com.au/news/science-and-tech/) \- [https://theaimn.com/category/environment/](https://theaimn.com/category/environment/) \- [https://westender.com.au/discussing/environment-and-climate/](https://westender.com.au/discussing/environment-and-climate/) \- [https://www.crikey.com.au/environment/](https://www.crikey.com.au/environment/) \- [https://theshot.net.au/](https://theshot.net.au/) \- [https://4zzz.org.au/news/](https://4zzz.org.au/news/) \- [https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/category/news/](https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/category/news/) \- [https://nofibs.com.au/](https://nofibs.com.au/) \- [https://www.smh.com.au/environment](https://www.smh.com.au/environment) \- [https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/search/section/australia](https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/search/section/australia) \- [https://www.openforum.com.au/](https://www.openforum.com.au/) \- [https://nit.com.au/search-results/environment](https://nit.com.au/search-results/environment) \- [https://theindependents.org.au/category/environment/](https://theindependents.org.au/category/environment/)I don’t know what the state of the Internet Archive is with the recent attacks but you could try to find a cached copy of those posts with the Wayback Machine.
got them, thanks for that.
Oh good idea. Never done that before. I’ll go on tonight and have a look
If you don’t find anything send me the links for the deleted posts and I’ll have a go tonight or tomorrow morning.
I should create and kill a user account to experiment and answer this authoritatively. Given that unionagainstdhmo’s posts and comments appear to have gone, while Baku’s have not, I suspect there is an option to delete all your content when you delete your account.
@nath @Zagorath I read 30 days. Mine took 30 days to delete from other instances, instantly from the home instance. One instance they reappeared and I contacted the Administrator to have them removed.
He said it was a bit of a fuck around to delete them from the database and it appears I was banned from server, not that I quit.
My other account on beehaw haven’t gone at all but that is running a different version.
When banning a user we’re presented with a tickbox option to remove all posts/comments from them. Likely the admin did this rather than delve into the DB.
@lodion I was already dropped as a user, I think he said he had to reinstate me to ban me.
The way he explained it, it was unusual behaviour and more of a “bug”.
There’s also purge. It’s a super-remove that will go through the database and delete every record the user ever existed. I use it sparingly, since the record of purging a user doesn’t even appear in the modlog (no instance admin would ever abuse this power, right?). Can’t log a purge because that user never existed. Even regular-level spam bots don’t get the purge treatment.
I can purge comments, also. I’ve even done it once for a mod. I forget the circumstances of how we reached that point, something about a ban not removing content properly? It was probably hate-related in some form.
Edit: Just tracked that incident down. It was 9 months ago and the mod was… unionagainstdhmo! 😀
The situation was that someone had posted a racist comment that he’d performed a normal remove on. On the web, the comment was gone - but the mobile API was still showing it. That bug has since gone, but yeah it was a thing for a long time where comments removed still showed on the mobile apps.
Oh, I’m glad I left this thread open to come back to later! Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen that Treevan still lives! Hope you’re doing well. Your contributions around here are sadly missed.
Hi Zagorath. I’m doing fine, the usual etc. I do hope that you’re OK too. I’m still around and still reading occasionally, I didn’t leave for mental health reasons or anything like that, I left because I was getting downvoted for opinions about my employment/passion and I figured “fuck everyone then” because while I understand the downvotes don’t mean much, they mean that my opinion wasn’t required or needed in the conversation. Funnily enough, it was Baku that pushed me over the edge and I see that they’re gone too. Yeesh.
I hope you enjoyed the election. Maybe not who won but your work with it. Keep up with writing your opinions, they’re worth reading.
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edit: more context for anyone interested
Thanks for sharing the link. I rarely jump on the melbs daily discussion so missed that completely. I don’t know what Baku was talking about, but i agree with the person who called him a shining light around here. I especially loved all his train posts.
Baku is literally a high school aged teenager so it’s not surprising a discussion-based social media platform filled with adults could get overwhelming for them. As I said to them once before, I was in their position back when old school forums were a thing and it was tough trying to fit in as a teenager when everyone else was in their 20s or older. You doubt and question yourself a lot more at that age, often unfairly. I agree that they were a good poster here and hopefully they’ll return one day.
So lost as in left or lost as in unalive?
Left. The comment linked by @MHLoppy@fedia.io provides more explanation.