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Their comments in this thread are what made me notice it. Maybe they did actually deliberately choose to delete those, but I thought it seemed unlikely to be that, in context.
I should create and kill a user account to experiment and answer this authoritatively. Given that unionagainstdhmo's posts and comments appear to have gone, while Baku's have not, I suspect there is an option to delete all your content when you delete your account.
@nath @Zagorath I read 30 days. Mine took 30 days to delete from other instances, instantly from the home instance. One instance they reappeared and I contacted the Administrator to have them removed.
He said it was a bit of a fuck around to delete them from the database and it appears I was banned from server, not that I quit.
My other account on beehaw haven't gone at all but that is running a different version.
When banning a user we're presented with a tickbox option to remove all posts/comments from them. Likely the admin did this rather than delve into the DB.
@lodion I was already dropped as a user, I think he said he had to reinstate me to ban me.
The way he explained it, it was unusual behaviour and more of a "bug".
There's also purge. It's a super-remove that will go through the database and delete every record the user ever existed. I use it sparingly, since the record of purging a user doesn't even appear in the modlog (no instance admin would ever abuse this power, right?). Can't log a purge because that user never existed. Even regular-level spam bots don't get the purge treatment.
I can purge comments, also. I've even done it once for a mod. I forget the circumstances of how we reached that point, something about a ban not removing content properly? It was probably hate-related in some form.
Edit: Just tracked that incident down. It was 9 months ago and the mod was... unionagainstdhmo! 😀
The situation was that someone had posted a racist comment that he'd performed a normal remove on. On the web, the comment was gone - but the mobile API was still showing it. That bug has since gone, but yeah it was a thing for a long time where comments removed still showed on the mobile apps.