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I have been uploading comic art images by Moebius for several weeks almost daily to the !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee community, where I´m a moderator myself. All those images have disappeared. Modlog says the images have been deleted by "admin". Modlog gives no reason for this but says the images were later restored by "admin" but that is not true. All my comic art posts have been destroyed and are empty posts now. I was not even contacted a single time about this and honestly can´t think of a reason because I had uploaded exclusively "safe for work" and apolitical material. We are trying to build a community for european graphic novels like "Tintin", "Lucky Luke" and "The Incal" and I put a lot of love in those posts because I want to help make our community interesting and grow. However - I have been stongly discouraged to contribute content now that I have seen it gets arbitrarily wiped by anonymus admins. How can I find out what happened, who deleted my stuff and why they did so? How can I avoid this happeing to my posts in the future?

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well let's ask 'em

@ruud@lemmy.world
@MichelleG@lemmy.world
@antik@lemmy.world
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world @xylinna@lemmy.world
@clueless_stoner@lemmy.world
@lwadmin@lemmy.world
@quinten@lemmy.world

Hey guys, looks like banning people and removing posts permanently deletes the actual content from your server, making so that even a post that instantly gets reinstated is already dead. It looks like you don't know that, because otherwise nobody would have bothered reinstating the posts.

Name and shame, who's the one to blame? It's weeaboo time.

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this contructive comment. I hope admins will answer at some point.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

removing posts permanently deletes the actual content from your server

Just for the record, the posts were in fact soft-deleted, something that OP and I can do as staff, as well as restoring posts. Indeed, I could be wrong, but it looks like only staff on the instance-runner level can actually perm-delete posts, i.e. even common admins can't do it.

The whole point of that is pretty clearly to err on the side of caution when deleting, even by post creators and staff. Which is why, like I think you're implying, it's such a disaster to have deleted all OP's image content over... seemingly nothing.

In any case, thanks for weighing in so strongly. We appreciate it!