When you devote 30 minutes to a detailed answer about something you're passionate about and refresh to find "permanently deleted"

Firmly agree. If I notice a trend on posts being deleted after posting, I just block the user so I don't see the new posts. Nothing is more annoying then putting a bunch of effort responding to someones question, especially tech related, just for them to nuke the post later on so it was all for nothing.

Thankfully though, it's few and far between on the communities that I usually look at, so I have not noticed it a whole lot.

hope this gets deleted soon

You're not alone in this. This is a carryover from reddit, and it's maddening. But, thus is life, I guess.

Lemmy will never be the resource reddit became if everyone just deletes their info.

So gosh darn tired of that.

To those deleters, I want to say: if you don't like the answers that you're getting, tough shit buddy. Learn from your mistake. Leave the post up for other people to also learn.

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My solution to this is:

1. Use a UI or app that badges or otherwise indicates new accounts (or accounts newer than 30 days or so)
2. Refuse to interact with those accounts in the various "ask" communities. Maybe even throw it a downvote if it seems like it's coming from the same person that keeps doing this.
3. If no one engages with them, maybe they'll knock this "hit it and quit it" bullshit off.

Sorry legit new accounts, but it's these selfish assholes that are ruining things for you and everyone else.

I'm fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it's not just me.

Yup, extremely annoying

You sound like a fed to me... 🤨

/s (unless..?)

The solution to this is changing the software to give the communities more control over the content, being able to restore the comment, maybe without the name so the persons username keeps unaffected while still keeping the content intact.

This needs to go into the lemmy software issue tracker to be considered. That is the way to change things.

Sure but then I get someone making an unnecessarily critical and destructive comment and my post turns to shit and nobody participates anymore because they're too fixated on the comment and start down voting the thread instead.

I recently made a post on AskLemmy and the third guy commenting just started casting doubts on what I shared even though it was an anecdote and it's something that happens where I live. My story's sole purpose was to generate interest and get people commenting. But nooo, I can't do that because what happened is inconceivable in their country so it must be impossible everywhere else! Lemmy always knows best. Fuck it, nuked.

Holy shit THANK YOU. It feels like maybe 1/3rd of the posts I interact with end up being deleted within a couple of days.