cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731
Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
I delete them when I don’t have the energy to argue with people online about things. They can be the one terminally online. I’m not chasing them down that rabbit hole. Especially when you get comment after comment replying to you and you know they don’t want to argue in good faith and you’re just signing up to get cyber bullied by a brick wall.