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This community isn't your personal adviser (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 29 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Wow crazy I couldn't imagine that this community gets enough posts to warrant so aggressively enforcing rules about the content.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Exactly, I could understand it on the huge subreddits with one question per minute, but here is so silent...

    Plus, as a user, when a mod deletes a post that I took over ten minutes to write, I go "fuck It" and stop contributing altogether (this also includes replying to other posts)

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Some people think that keeping a community laser focused attracts more readers through quality. It’s an ideal that I respect, but I’ve never really observed that to be true in reality.

    If you’re reading this @HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz consider this my polite feedback that I completely get what you’re trying to accomplish but you might be working harder than you need to be.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    @HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world Just to add, I would say working to the detriment of the community through the deletions.

    Locking would make more sense, along with redirecting to specific communities that you feel would be more relevant.

    As I see it, I think people post here for what could be considered tangential because it is more popular than similar communities. I think this very post shows that the users have been perfectly fine with the posts being made, and are bothered by the information (effectively) disappearing with deletions.

    If the mod team does not want those sort of posts here, of course thats fine. But it is kind of shitty to delete them, especially with so much interaction already there. I'd encourage locking them and redirecting through a mod comment instead. If you can't think of a more appropriate community for them, its likely they can't either, which is why they posted here in the first place.

    Just my 2¢.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Congrats. You're a mod now. Have at it.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Considering your application of the rules, I really dont think thats what you want. Unless you want me to go ahead and restore posts that (like other users per this thread) seem relevant enough to be here.

    Quite a response to "here's a way this could work better for everyone", too.

    But if its what you want, sure, I'll do it.

    Edit: to be clear, I'd like you to confirm this is really what you want.

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