If a comment of yours is ever deleted, you will automatically receive a PM with the text of your comment, so you don’t lose the content of your comment.
My intuition is that it would be better to allow users to see posts of their own that were deleted in a grayed out way instead of going through the way of sending an PM.
If there’s a troll, sending a troll a PM that one of their post got deleted creates a stronger invitation to respond. That especially goes for deletions without giving reasons.
In addition I would advocate that posts that are deleted in this way stay visible to the Sunshine regiment in a grayed out way. For the Sunshine regiment it’s important to understand what get’s deleted.
We considered the grayed-out way, but it was both somewhat technically annoying, and I did also feel like it is justified to notify people if one of their comments was deleted, without them having to manually check the relevant section of the comment area.
The PM comes from a dummy account, and I think makes it clear that there is no use in responding. But unsure whether that was what you were pointing to with “stronger invitation to respond”.
And yep, all deleted comments are visible to sunshines.
If you have a person who writes a trolling post out of anger, the event of them getting a PM that their post was deleted triggers the anger again. This can lead to more engagement.
On the other hand, just greying out the post doesn’t produce engagement with the topic in the same strength.
Given that we don’t have that many angry trolls at the moment, I however don’t think this is an important issue.
My intuition is that it would be better to allow users to see posts of their own that were deleted in a grayed out way instead of going through the way of sending an PM.
If there’s a troll, sending a troll a PM that one of their post got deleted creates a stronger invitation to respond. That especially goes for deletions without giving reasons.
In addition I would advocate that posts that are deleted in this way stay visible to the Sunshine regiment in a grayed out way. For the Sunshine regiment it’s important to understand what get’s deleted.
We considered the grayed-out way, but it was both somewhat technically annoying, and I did also feel like it is justified to notify people if one of their comments was deleted, without them having to manually check the relevant section of the comment area.
The PM comes from a dummy account, and I think makes it clear that there is no use in responding. But unsure whether that was what you were pointing to with “stronger invitation to respond”.
And yep, all deleted comments are visible to sunshines.
If you have a person who writes a trolling post out of anger, the event of them getting a PM that their post was deleted triggers the anger again. This can lead to more engagement.
On the other hand, just greying out the post doesn’t produce engagement with the topic in the same strength.
Given that we don’t have that many angry trolls at the moment, I however don’t think this is an important issue.