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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

To preface none of my fellow admins know about this post due to the language that I am using.
Although I do believe that they would be supportive of this as they care about our users just as much as I do.


I just had a run in with a user asking for help who then deleted their post and comments soon after.

If you see any users asking for help I would personally recommend a couple of things to look out for:

  • Check their profile;
    • how old's the account?
    • what kinds of posts and comments are they making?
      • Are they the kind of user you'd be cool with being friends with?
    • Do they have history of deleting posts/comments? If so why? and how often?
  • Check the modlog;
    • have they done or said anything that warrented themselves getting banned or their posts/comments removed?

I'm making this post as I'm personally frustrated seeing posts and comments being removed as it actively harms instances, communities, and most importantly users.

I absolutely despise when I go a saved post or comment thread that I wanted to reread later only to find that I can't cause the post/thread's been deleted by a single user.

There's so much useful or interesting and creative things that people care about and also want to share in terms of life experiences or just having a cool thing to collaborate and work on.

  • having this be ruined by individuals that want to 'dine and dash' basically ruins this.

Honestly Fuck you.
If you 'help farm' especially I will find you and I will ban you because you are actively harming users who spend their precious time, effort, and humanly love to do cool stuff here on the Fediverse.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

What upset me the most about this wasn't that it happened to me but the fact that I saw that this was a repeated bahavior and I can imagine just how annoying and infuriating it feels to be on the recieving end of it for several other users.

I can deal with it as I've got backup methods from experience so for me it's annoying but eh whatever. I'm just annoyed because I know that others have had to experience this zero-sum behavior as well.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I get the feeling. An adjacent behaviour I've seen is someone making a few aggressive comments on one account, getting them removed and a ban, then deleting that account and creating an alt so that their reputation is now "clean" again.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah that's another good one to point out.๐Ÿ‘

I find those users entertaining when I see them cause their poor behavior is what got them banned in the first place; a new account's gonna do jack shit to improve that

You reminded me I should also add a "check the account's age"๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŒป

this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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