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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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[–] kiol@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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

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[–] pageflight@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Does deleting the root post nuke the whole thread?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The post yes, the comments no. You can't view the post any more. Here's one that was removed by the mod, but the effect is the same: https://lemmy.zip/post/65524914

Comments on a post still exist in that user's history, and you can see those, but you can't see them in context.

[–] M33@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe it should, or maybe moderators can clean up the community by removing it ? (Don’t know if it’s even possible)

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I dont think so. So quoting the original post would be an effective solution.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sometimes I assume the mods delete them because no one answered

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
DNS Domain Name Service/System
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

It sticks around in other software just FYI. Maybe lemmy should have something that admins can do? Maybe something super admins can re-instate if a mod states should be un-deleted? I dunno.

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