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Please don't expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.

This has become a chronic issue with Lemmy and its starting to feel like it's a waste of time to answer questions.

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[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Has that been happening a lot here?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 102 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Lemmy in general, yes. Here in self hosted at least a couple of times that I've seen. Including earlier today. But I don't interact on every post.

I only find out because sometimes I like to go back to posts I comment on and see what additional information people have offered. (There's always something to learn.) Then I find the post has been deleted.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I absolutely detest how on lemmy deleting a post also nukes access to the comments. They’re still there, but there’s no way in many normally lemmy UI to get to them.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Yes! This drives me crazy. I will sometimes go back and edit posts to add more info months later.

We have all been in a situation where we are looking for a very specific answer, and the answer only exists in one obscure forum from a decade ago that has the exact info we are looking for.

It's hard enough to ensure lemmy's long-term fidelity without people axing their own content.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Hadn't noticed, but wow. I wonder what the motivation is to delete info that would help other people.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago

"fuck you got mine"

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[–] DundasStation@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Have you checked the modlogs to see if the posts you're talking about were deleted by the mods? The mods here seem to really not want this community to be a support community and will delete it under Rule 3.

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