I’m just going through my past history, and looking for anything where the subject is “*Permanently Deleted*” and where the Modlog for that community shows nothing.

None of these appear in the modlog of their respective communities.

I’ve been told before in an earlier comment chain that this might be due to the post user being permanently deleted.

Is there any way I can verify this as an end-user? Once the post is gone, I can’t see the username of who posted it.

It’s just a bit of a small hole in the transparency of Lemmy’s fantastic moderation

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlOP
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    13 days ago

    I guess I don’t want to prolong this discussion too much, and I do thank you both for conversing with me so deep to this point.

    I hope you can understand a little bit where I’m coming from, where a user such as myself cannot work out whether a post / account was purged due to a user being banned for NSFL content, or because mods are doing something nefarious. Unlike the modlog where decisions are transparent, we just have to take it on good faith that the user was bad.

    I thank you for explaining the implementation difficulties in this regard. From the top-level, it does not seem that difficult to me to annotate a dead post with a comment about why a user was deleted (I’m assuming there’s a user-deletion log somewhere at the admin instance-level (or even a shared user-ban-list propogated across instances?) this info can be pulled from), but I suppose I can understand how it might be an extra layer of complexity trying to sync such actions.

    • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      13 days ago

      it does not seem that difficult to me to annotate a dead post with a comment about why a user was deleted (I’m assuming there’s a user-deletion log somewhere at the admin instance-level (or even a shared user-ban-list propogated across instances?) this info can be pulled from), but I suppose I can understand how it might be an extra layer of complexity trying to sync such actions.

      Feel free to open an issue on the Lemmy Github: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

      This post has been quite interesting to be honest