How is this possible?

    • Dave.
      5·
      4 months ago

      Content of deleted comment:

      Try this comment that I’m going to delete.

      I use boost as it shows deleted comments as “deleted by creator”, but you can reply to deleted comments and when you do you can see and quote it

      Just like I have now. So what I assume is happening is that the backend just marks the comment as deleted and leaves everything in place, and it’s up to the front end to handle that.

        • Dave.
          3·
          4 months ago

          Yeah - personally I don’t mind it this way. To me, “Deleted by creator” is simply something more along the lines of, “I’d like to retract my previous statement”.

          Sometimes I get curious and reply to a deleted comment to see what they said, but generally I let it slide.

          • LWD@lemm.ee
            41·
            4 months ago

            Sounds like you have too stable of a temperament to be a Lemmy server admin to me. Just wait until I tell you what I know about the guy who built a server just to downvote someone else on here, the one platform where downvotes don’t matter.

            spoiler

            This is not a bit. I found someone who did that.

            • Dave.
              3·
              4 months ago

              I can only look at that and dream of having such incredible levels of pettiness.

          • Gurfaild@feddit.de
            1·
            4 months ago

            The problem with that is that comments that are removed by moderators behave the same way - that might actually cause legal problems if someone posts something that you’re obligated to remove instead of just hiding it