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Well OP. Looks like your post resulted in a moderator resigning and the appointment of two new moderators in this community. As I've said previously, it was a moderator removing posts for a very far stretch interpretation of Rule 3, and not users deleting them after getting the answer.
Let's hope this results in a better community for the selfhosters here.
And I'll use your comment as my post here for a local mod appointment of my lw account!
Let’s hope this results in a better community for the selfhosters here.
Wow! I just noticed that. Shit moves quickly on the tubes. Welcome our new overlords!
Thank you for the update!
a moderator removing posts for a very far stretch interpretation of Rule 3
...stretch by which party? in the sense that the post not really about self-hosting (and OP tried to use rule 3 in a stretched interpretation), or that the post was about self-hosting but moderator applied it in unnecessarily strict way? The way you phrased it seems like the former, but then why would that result in moderator resigning?
(I'm not a native English speaker so sorry if it should have been clear.)
To give you some context, I initially made this comment on OP's post. Then I followed up with this comment after the resignation of a moderator on !selfhosted@lemmy.world.
I was referring to the former moderator's very bizarre interpretation of Rule 3. You'll see in the modlogs that many posts that were clearly about selfhosting getting removed under Rule 3.
It's a particularly egregious case of "fuck you, got mine"
I've never understood why the OP can nuke an entire thread full of comments. Not even reddit is that obtuse.
This is the same thing as posting on a forum a question, then saying never mind I figured it out WITHOUT STATING THE ANSWER! When googling shit and coming across this back in the day I would get more mad at those than my issue.
Came across that so many fucking times that it's burned into my psyche. I will go out of my way to list the answer, especially now google is a wet pile of shit technically
That's even more infuriating than when you used Google to find a thread where someone asks the exact question you have, and there is only one response and it's someone saying "use Google".
“use Google”.
It makes me cringe when I see it in a forum. *Imagine you come to a forum designed to help people do , you ask a question, and the response is 'Google exists. Piss off."
The spiritual heir to 'RTFM'
I've lost count of the snarky 'let me google that for you' links I've found doing niche searches in the pre-AI days.
People do that? That's fucked up...
I think I should start checking if a poster has a history of regularly deleting posts/comments, before trying to give a useful answer.
As much as I hate to say it OP, but when somebody ask a question they are asking for their own personal needs. And community is like this are actually here to serve an individuals questions. If that's not the point of why you're here then maybe what you should do is start a new thread world whatever it's called here that's called spell posted library or something like that so that way you can create a community fact sheet about how to do things. Why somebody delete stuff who knows people are weirdly private about openly public things. Maybe people feel embarrassed about asking your question or move it. It's who the hell knows. But in the end it is their threat to ask questions and if you choose not to answer a question and then you don't have to. However your time that you took to answer their question did not get wasted as they chose to take that advice and run with it. Just because your question now has to be read explain or your answer has to be reacclaimed in another thread doesn't mean that it wouldn't have to be explained in another thread anyways. You're never going to point to this thread or that thread and say the answer was already here the answer was already there. That's not how communities like this actually work.
Great suggestion. I think you're both right - until we have such a library as you describe, we should try and keep this as a community resembling one. But a seperate resource actually designed for permanent knowledge hub would be more ideal.
You’re never going to point to this thread or that thread and say the answer was already here the answer was already there. That’s not how communities like this actually work.
This is (presumably) true. I guess another problem with people deleting their stuff is that it's "bad etiquette" on the poster's part, as it creates the illusion that less productive exchange is happening on this sub than really is, which then makes visitors less likely to ask for help here. And i guess the OP is hoping that people who need help will do a quick search before posting about their problem.
You and I both know they won't. The only thing doing searching is Google bots and AI
I haven’t seen the posts (probably from deletion) but Lemmy to me is an invaluable source of smart Linux and selfhosters. Seems like a great place to ask questions for problem to me on the surface. Where should people like me go to if I need help? Genuinely asking
Where should people like me go to if I need help?
Here. Just don't delete the question after you get your answer.
The way I read it is it's not the asking questions that is the problem at all, it's the deleting afterwards.
we need to make a list of usernames who are deleting their posts, regularly or even just twice
Yeah it's more than likely the same people doing it all the time.
Edit: either that or AI bots farming information from Lemmy to feed their databases.
On reddit they had bots that would automatically repost the content of the post so it couldn't be deleted.
Oh, I thought this was about me since I just asked for file transfer stuff but you're specifically talking about deleting it right after. It happened to me on asklemmy where the user deleted it right after
Asking questions in a public forum (after searching imo) is generally a positive thing. Answers are then public and the next person with the question can find the answer. That sort of behaviour should be encouraged, and no one will ever complain about it imo.
I just want to apologize for being the person who asks questions and then doesn't respond to the comments. I get overwhelmed D: but I'd never delete my post, what's the purpose in that?
It doesn't make sense, either. There's no rational reason to delete a thread after the question has been answered.
Even if it wasn't actually a person but was an AI agent asking questions so it can scrape the data from the answers, there's no real utility in deleting the posts after recieving responses. It just seems so weird.
Sure it's not also mods removing them?
Just glanced at it, but noticed a user (ayyy) was temp banned here 24 days ago for apparently telling a user to kys, then appointed mod here 45 minutes ago.
Wat?
https://lemmy.world/post/39025760
wtf? Half the post is nuked even after being locked. I don't even see how such a small community can be so stuck up about relevancy and purity washing selfhosted as if we all own our own DNS registrars and can do outbound SMTP.