@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone’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.
Ah, so @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 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! :)
No idea, would assume they’ve deleted their account for some reason. I’ve certainly not taken any action, and am certain @Nath@aussie.zone hasn’t either.
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?
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.
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.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.
I’m dealing with a similar issue on !environment@aussie.zone . 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.
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.
got them, thanks for that.
Oh good idea. Never done that before. I’ll go on tonight and have a look
Gorgritch: I still have the links stored away. I’ll try a code block if no one minds me messing up the thread?
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
Baku is literally a high school aged teenager so it’s not surprising a discussion-based social media platform filled with adults could get overwhelming for them. As I said to them once before, I was in their position back when old school forums were a thing and it was tough trying to fit in as a teenager when everyone else was in their 20s or older. You doubt and question yourself a lot more at that age, often unfairly. I agree that they were a good poster here and hopefully they’ll return one day.
So lost as in left or lost as in unalive?
Left. The comment linked by @MHLoppy@fedia.io provides more explanation.
Oh, thats sad. He used to be very active, and was very nice.
