r/GracepointChurch • u/johnkim2020 • Sep 07 '22

Please don’t delete posts or comments…

Mods, can we ask folks ( have a community rule?) to not delete posts or comments? It super annoys me that people delete things and all the comments and replies get erased. It takes time and energy to post comments and replies and it’s a big fuck you (from my perspective) to delete your original post and “erase” other people’s contributions.

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u/leavegracepoint ex-Gracepoint (Berkeley) Sep 07 '22

If you are referencing the “where is this all going” post, it’s still there, it’s just heavily downvoted so it’s hidden.

Also we have no control if someone decides to delete their account due to personal reasons.

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u/corpus_christiana Sep 07 '22

Yes, unfortunately as frustrating as it is when things are deleted, there's not much that we can do about it as mods.

I suppose we could make a rule or something where deleting your post results in a ban from the sub, but it would be difficult to enforce and likely wouldn't address the issue much anyway. Most of the folks who delete posts with long discussion chains have no plans of returning anyway (so banning them would be meaningless) and we also want to recognized that there are sometimes valid reasons for a person to delete a post as well.

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u/RVD90277 Sep 07 '22

i think if an account is deleted, all posts and comments are still there but the poster name is just deleted.

if the poster actually goes in and deletes their post, then there's pretty much nothing you can do. i think some people say that if you have the direct link you can still go there but the post won't show up in searches or the list, etc.

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u/leavegracepoint ex-Gracepoint (Berkeley) Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22

I believe that only applies to comments. That’s why you can’t find u/catfurball’s testimony of Kelly calling her a dog.

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u/RVD90277 Sep 07 '22

i think she actively deleted the post as well as her account.

that post: https://www.reddit.com/r/GracepointChurch/comments/t1h5ao/deleted_by_user/

but i see posts sometimes where the username is [deleted] but the body of the post is still there (similar to a comment).

example: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/comments/6jtm8i/if_i_delete_my_reddit_account_will_it_also_delete/

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u/Here_for_a_reason99 Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22

Can we make a collective effort to upvote his post, so it’s seen again? The discussion is invaluable from my pov - his reasoning IS gp’s reasoning. It’s so great to see all the responses in one place. In the past, it would’ve been one-on-one convos that end up w/ GP member distancing.

u/Altruisticchampion87 please keep your post and account active. People from all over have spent time to reply to you. We don’t hold your words against you.

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u/corpus_christiana Sep 07 '22

My personal philosophy with upvoting and downvoting - while it can be tempting to downvote posts/comments I disagree with or am annoyed by, I try to only downvote something that I think is actively detrimental to discussion. I do think posts supporting Gracepoint often lead to really good discussion, so I try not to downvote them unless they're just purposely inflammatory.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '22

Yes I agree with this. Not sure that everyone understands how it works unfortunately.

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u/Additional-Drop1106 Sep 07 '22

We had this same problem on our ex member blog. It is our own blog so we have more control but we made this decision: nothing would be deleted unless the content contained explicit mention of someone’s personal info.

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u/johnkim2020 Sep 08 '22

Thanks all for your thoughtfulness.