A Little Suggestion

[PöpThèséFøøls]

Can steam admins, or mods, or devs (or God, or Allah) remove ability to "delete" your own comment (in workshop items too), leaving only "edit" option? Please. I'm tired to see notifications after sleep, clicking on it and there's no new comment.

[Phoenix]

No.

- God

[Kargor]

That would be rather dumb.

If I need to delete a posting in a forum that doesn't have a delete item, I end up removing the existing text, and just put something like "<deleted>" into its place...

Also, I've recently installed the "What's app" messenger thingy. Turns out, it has some kind of mini-description, and the default wasn't all that great -- "I'm using What's app" or something similar. So, I removed that -- only to learn that you can't; you have to have a text. Now, my description is ".".

People aren't going to do the things you want if you prevent them from doing they want. They'll just use workarounds...

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

As pointed out this would not work anyway unless you remove the "Edit" function as well.
Otherwise, instead of nothing you'd see a comment that just says "." or something like this.

[PöpThèséFøøls]

becasue someone can delete their comment from discussion with you leaving you looking like you were talking to yourself, not very pleasant

[Crazy Tiger]

Wouldn't it be easier that they remove the notification if the comment gets deleted?

[zaphodikus]

Alternately don't subscribe to any threads or participate on threads where this is likely to occur. A bit hard sometimes to do, but some subforums are a hot mess and all you can do is find another space.

Also, someone might just be trolling you and stealing your dopamine rush.
sorry to hear this is happening.

[IFIYGD]

Ursprungligen skrivet av PopTheseFools:

becasue someone can delete their comment from discussion with you leaving you looking like you were talking to yourself, not very pleasant

The "quote" function exists. Use it in threads or forums where people tend to delete their thread topics or comments, so others know what you were responding to.
I would not be happy if the "delete" option was gone. I don't delete comments often, but there are times where it is more appropriate than editing with a big "Ooopsie- someone typed faster than me and already gave the same answer I was giving". Since pages don't refresh in real time, and only refresh after you hit "post comment", being able to delete a duplicate or redundant comment helps to keep a thread cleaner.

[PöpThèséFøøls]

Discussion threads at least somewhat moderatable, but I can't quote in workshop, and it provides ability to insult/harass someone and clean up your mess yourself and get away with it like nothing happened, can't even report messages in workshop.

[Drab]

Ursprungligen skrivet av PopTheseFools:

Discussion threads at least somewhat moderatable, but I can't quote in workshop, and it provides ability to insult/harass someone and clean up your mess yourself and get away with it like nothing happened, can't even report messages in workshop.

Report them via their profile then.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Crazy Tiger:

Wouldn't it be easier that they remove the notification if the comment gets deleted?

Yeah, they should do this instead.

This can be used to troll across the entire community platform of Steam.
Anywhere that you can receive notifications from - someone can do this.

Of course, it's not necessarily trolling if it happens, some people just reconsider posting something a bit too late.

I get about 2 or 3 notifications per week from a certain game hub that I'm subscribed to because people create topics then retract them before I wake up.