I’m looking to what happened to To foreigners (non-Americans), is respect for the USA dead? post (posted here about a day ago), mostly out of curiosity. I assume it was deleted (by an admin?) but can’t see anything in modlog. Could it be deleted by author and that’s why it isn’t listed in modlog or anywhere else?

  • Nycifer@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Huh, that’s strange.

    I tried researching an answer, I looked around the entire instance.

    It was until I stumbled upon the side bar and found, you won’t believe this - the rules.

    Wooooooaaaaaahhhh! So I read these rules and the plausibility was right there. Like in Rule 2. My god, I’ve solved a mystery!

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Probably the auther changed their mind. Maybe because they thought it wasn’t a good question after all. Maybe they didn’t like the comments. You’d have to ask the author, if you still have the post loaded somewhere.

    • Mihies@programming.devOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Basically, if author deletes the post, then this action isn’t visible anywhere and post is just missing?

      • mystrawberrymind@piefed.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Yeah, deleted posts show up as ‘error.’ You can’t even view the discussion or anything, even if you participated. It’s bogus =\

        • Mihies@programming.devOPEnglish
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          3 days ago

          I guess there is room for improvement here, at least a message saying that author deleted the post. Not sure whether to show comments or not, but I guess they could be shown. Something like reddit does where post content is replaced by [Deleted] or something like that.

      • 56!@slrpnk.net
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        4 days ago

        Yes. Also, if a user is banned, the mod can select to delete all their posts/comments. Only the ban shows up in the modlog.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        I’m not sure about the technicallities, but yes, that’s my experience. Yesterday I had someone delete a post while I was commenting on it and when I pressed send, it gave an error. I could still see the post, because I had it loaded in my app, but when I went to look at the poster, they didn’t have it in their history anymore. I could still navigate back to the post then, but now I can’t find it anymore.