In an attempt to boost activity I’ve tried to answer a few questions in this, and similar communities. Looking for an old comment, I found out that a bunch of posts I’d answered are now *Permanently Deleted*, and what’s that about? If they’re LLM slop there’s enough of it I’d rather just block the community so as to not waste any time.
When I’ve seen it, it tends to be because OP disagrees with the responses being drummed up by their post.
Last time I saw it, it was for a post about a trans couple being attacked, and somehow the comments became about one guy claiming he’d have saved the day as a gun owner (totally ignoring that he’s not the only gun owner in America).
People backed him up, downvoting anyone saying it could have turned into a bloody shoot out, so OP deleted the comments.
Apparently people couldn’t manage to support trans rights without being pro-guns, and if you disagreed the crowd turned on you. America, where trans people and guns have to go hand in bloody glove.
Controversial.
I came across it on a post about why universities are expensive. At first it had all the standard Reddit answers but I used my experience in the university system to provide more accurate answers. My responses started generating responses and then the whole thing was shutdown. I thought they were farming for LLM content and didn’t like the answers. I am definitely less likely to participate now.