anghraine | (no subject)

I'm sure it's happened before, but I noticed a deleted AO3 comment on one of my fics that (to go by past!Elizabeth's response) had been entirely pleasant. I am guessing the commenter deleted to avoid association with the fic itself (we get dark, only to shine—so it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that someone could be harassed or worried about harassment for commenting favorably on it, given that it revolves around adulterous sibling incest between murderous teenagers, or that they themself came to disapprove of the fic's existence). Or maybe they ended up getting disaffected with me personally and didn't want to leave a compliment, or maybe they deleted all their comments to everyone, I don't know.

But :(

(I don't at all disapprove of the power to delete stuff like comments, but my archival sensibilities are troubled by things just going away.)

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Oh no :(

Your comments don't get deleted if you delete your account, I think you have to do it manually on the fic itself? So I worry it's the fear of harasssment one.

Oh, that is disappointing, I'm sorry. I do hope the person is not actively being bothered.

Do you save your comments in any other modality? I assume you get enough that it might be unwieldy, but I do, and it's a bit of a personal bulwark against these little losses.

That's so random! I've also seen a deleted comment once on what I thought was an innocuous fic, so I almost wonder: do comments get deleted if people delete their AO3 accounts?