I remember someone commenting one of my observations about how to differentiate Prunus species (I recall they said it wasn’t a foolproof set of criteria, but helpful for a ballpark guess if one had more than just one photo of the flowers). While I found the observation again, unfortunately the pers…

No sorry, but you could perhaps send them a message to inquire about the characteristics.

That would defeat the purpose of deleting.

Why, of course! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Still, I think they were onto something useful, which is why I favorite’d the observation. I’d love to contact them – if I recalled their nick. :frowning: Which was my secret hope, I guess.

It is possible that the comment is gone not because the user deleted the comment, but because the user deleted their account. (Maybe relevant: There is a plant IDer in Europe who has gone through at least 3 rounds of creating an account, identifying thousands of observations, getting suspended, del…

Good point. I hadn’t thought of a deleted account, likely because in other nature-related fora that I frequent a deleted account does not automatically also lead to deleting that account’s posts (the posts are simply sanitized of references to that no-longer-existing member, but contents and dates a…

[image] spiphany: If iNat instead left a message that “user x deleted their comment” That would defeat the purpose of why I usually delete comments. I delete comments in which I have tagged someone after they respond. This reduces clutter on the obs.

This is about whole account deletion though, not individual comments.

@sphiphany mentioned both situations and my response was to only one of those situations as per the quoted text.

I don’t know how often or for what reasons people delete comments; it’s possible that the majority of people who delete comments are doing so for similar reasons as you. However, there are numerous other situations in which a user might delete a comment – for example, if there was a heated discussi…

I agree with spiphany. iNaturalist is the only place that I am familiar with that has this “total erasure” policy. PS: The ‘reduce clutter’ theory is unconvincing. People are allowed to comment about everything, why would a tag inviting another user to have a look be so terrible? Has it occurred to…

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