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