I’ve seen this happen a bunch of time now that people just ask a question and it’s deleted a day or so later. Do they delete the question themselves, or is that some automatic thing? If they do it themselves, why?

*edit*

Thanks for the great answers so far. Very insightful. Please keep them coming, I’m curious to more points of view.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    541·
    25 days ago

    Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they’re done. It’s annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that’s still the case.

    Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone (especially legit new users) and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.

    • madjo@feddit.nlOP
      25·
      25 days ago

      I agree. It’s annoying and selfish. I often go back to older threads I’ve participated in to see other people’s points of view, to see if maybe I missed something. But to then see “permanently deleted” or words of that effect, that’s just sad. I can’t learn from those. No one can.

      • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
        7·
        25 days ago

        OTOH, it’s understandable given the endless apettite tech has for profiling people. The Fediverse is not Big Tech, but Big Tech wants all the data anyway, and given its open nature, it will get it eventually. Temporary accounts are a way to make it a bit harder for Big Tech, at the cost of making it worse for legitimate users.

        If the Fediverse had some protection against data greed, maybe less people would be wary of leaving a long data trail. The best it can do so far is using nicknames and multiple accounts.

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      25 days ago

      Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.

      Besides which, I find the expectation that people should create an account and use that in perpetuity very frustrating.

      I have a bunch of accounts and change according to my mood. Nothing nefarious or antisocial, I just don’t want a big silo of comments. My accounts are not an extension of my identity.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        11·
        25 days ago

        I didn’t say I had a problem with any of that. But spinning up a burner, posting, and deleting everything afterward takes other people’s conversations with it (and those don’t currently come up in search results because the post is deleted). Granted that’s a platform limitation, but it is what it is. Posting from various alts but leaving things intact…go for it.

        Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.

        That’s part of my complaint against the ones doing that “hit it and quit it” bullshit; it makes people wary of interacting with new accounts.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      they do it all the time on reddit, i have no problems with it. its only a problem when they know they are wrong and leave it up to stir shit up.