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If you add a Community Post to a post on X (formerly Twitter), X will tell you if the person who wrote the post deletes it, the company said on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cContributors consistently say their goal is to keep others well-informed,\u201d X wrote on the Community Notes account<\/a>. \u201cThis can happen when a helpful note appears on a post, and also when an erroneous post gets deleted. Starting today, writers will be notified when a post on which they wrote a note gets deleted.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The idea here seems to be to give people with the ability to add Community Notes<\/a> another tool to keep other users accountable. On one hand, I think this could be really useful; writing about deleted posts is a key aspect of my job<\/a>. But on the other, given the generally-bad vibes on X, I worry this tool may be abused to shame people who delete their posts over minor errors or factual inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This new Community Notes feature is the second that X has added this week. On Tuesday, X announced that people rating a note will see more note proposals<\/a> so they can \u201cconsider other notes before submitting their rating.\u201d X owner Elon Musk is a big advocate for Community Notes<\/a>, and the feature has gotten some notable updates, including expansions to images<\/a> and videos<\/a>, since he took over the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n