How is this possible?

  • Dave.
    5·
    9 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·
        9 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·
          9 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·
            9 months ago

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

        • Gurfaild@feddit.de
          1·
          9 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