@[email protected]’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.

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    Ah, so @[email protected] has done it, have they?

    Yeah, we had a good chat a few weeks ago about some stuff, u/bandhmo wasn’t happy with some interactions that had occurred in some chats, not on Aussie Zone.

    U/bandhmo did say they might come back one day, but felt they needed some rest/distance.

    Its a shame, i actually found we had a lot to talk about. I’s hoping after a somewhat busy period i’m going through in my personal life, we’d be able to reconnect and push forward a few ideas we’ve had for Aussie Zone.

    That chat is also where u/bandhmo asked me to become a mod for aussie-enviro. I’s happy to jump in, and i hope people are happy so far with how that whole thing is going. :)

    This leads me to a concern I have, and u/bandhmo shares around the communities that i’d like to share. For some communities there are only a few people posting, to the point where it becomes more like a quasi-blog than a community.

    So the question we have is, how to build a little more action in some of these communities to create a more sustainable, and fun environment?

    U/bandhmo had the idea we could create a Community Leader type role in communities. I don’t know from the admin side what this might entail.

    From what i understood, these people wouldn’t act as moderators, but be involved in supporting ongoing posts, in-community events, and along with the mods design the direction of the community they’re involved with.

    I’d love to get peoples thoughts on this, and maybe start taking steps towards a vision like this?

    To u/bandhmo if you’re reading. Have a break, but come back one day. I know i’ll miss ya! :)

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    No idea, would assume they’ve deleted their account for some reason. I’ve certainly not taken any action, and am certain @[email protected] hasn’t either.

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      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?

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              I’m dealing with a similar issue on [email protected] . 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.

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                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.

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                Gorgritch: I still have the links stored away. I’ll try a code block if no one minds me messing up the thread?

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                  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.

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              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.

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                @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.

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                  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.

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                  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.

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          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.

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        So lost as in left or lost as in unalive?

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    Oh, thats sad. He used to be very active, and was very nice.