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What's the reason for the empty comments, lately? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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

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In the last few weeks, I frequently see some empty comments. It's just the username and no text beneath.

Is there a deeper reason behind this? Do people nowadays strip away the text instead of deleting a comment? Or did some script surface that 'makes the internet forget'? First I thought people did this before deleting a comment and the deletion just didn't get federated. But I scrolled through some older posts and they also still have comments like that, so that can't be it. Right?

Can anyone educate me?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

If I delete my post/comment, I first edit it to be blank because it can take way more time to actually delete the post/comment than just editing it. They'll appear as just a completely blank post (not even any unicode spaces or weird shit like that). I started doing this after seeing other users doing the same for the reason I mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Ah, thanks. Maybe there's a few people like that out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I usually replace it with a period to try to make it easier to differentiate from posts that were only an image that didn't load

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is it just blank on the website? The apps I use at least have the decency to put a "broken jpg" icon as a stand-in when an image doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm using sync and if an image post doesn't load i see an error, but if a comment with just an image doesn't load it just looks like a blank comment. I've checked the site a few times and usually the image loads on the site, or if you touch the blank post where an image would be and sometimes that gets it to show up.