Selfhosted

Is it people deleting specific posts, or people deleting their accounts? I do find it kind of weird that when you delete your account, it deletes all the data you contributed. Maybe it's the right choice though, IDK.

Sometimes I assume the mods delete them because no one answered

Does deleting the root post nuke the whole thread?

Who's downvoting this?? Ban those moronic leeches. They're either anti-community or have the reading comprehension of a potato, ffs.

How is building a collective knowledge base possible without gathering the advice of others here?

Okay I'm just gonna call somebody out - Imperious_melange just deleted a thread with over 200 upvotes where a thriving discussion was underway. It was about whether people perceived a pro-China and anti-west sentiment on Lemmy. I tried to post a reply and the site said "deleted by creator". The thread was just gone. They also seem to have deleted their account, so I can't even PM them. That's all just a huge dick move.

I've made a couple of posts here and there to get some answers on how to do certain things, as I'm really new to this whole self-hosting thing. But after some time my thread gets auto-deleted, often before I can even get a solid answer to my question.

So, if /c/SelfHosted isn't where I should post beginner questions for the community to help me, where should I post? The sidebar provides no link to something like that.

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.