How do we find out the cause of deleted posts not shown in the modlog?
How do we find out the cause of deleted posts not shown in the modlog?
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.
- (Deleted within the hour) https://lemmy.ml/post/28333996, modlog
- (Deleted 3 days ago) https://lemmy.ml/post/28206502/17786644, modlog
- (Deleted 10 days ago) https://lemmy.ml/post/27878131/17617304, modlog
- (Deleted 13 days ago) https://lemmy.ml/post/27745076/17556469, modlog
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
"Permanently deleted" normally means the poster has removed their account and content. In this case, your comment hasn't been removed, but the post you were replying to is gone, because the person who made the post deleted their account. It reads permanently deleted, because that's now the post title in the database
I had a look, seems like for the fedimemes post the poster got banned, and probably their post removed:
They likely deleted their account after getting banned
it's also the case for deletions without account deletions, but iirc there is some delay before it gets rewritten in the db to allow the user to undelete it for a bit of time.