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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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[+] -17 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I deleted my post here specifically. it was completely useless to anyone else and 0 chance anyone could find any part of it useful.

I've done that a coupla times when I determine that the post itself and the replies provide no value to anyone whatsoever.

I wouldn't think of removing a post otherwise, if I made an error in OP or came off stupid or sumsuch, I'd edit it for posterity; even when it's a pile-on downvote bonanza, I wouldn't think of touching it.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You used "I" a lot in that response! You seem to think you have the best idea of what everybody else would find valuable.

    What is actually true is stupid, pointless, simple and obvious questions being posted and responded to means other people don't need to post the same question again.

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

    you can rest assured I know the difference; it was completely useless, I didn't go "problem solved, let's nuke the fucker". I had posts that received a barrage of downvotes and I let 'em be. had posts where the conclusion differed from what was originally intended and I'd let them be as there was value in the resolution. this was none of them things, no chance anyone would find this useful.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Dude you can't know what I may find useful. Like you literally cannot, even if your IQ is 300, you have zero data on what I need and would find useful.

    It doesn't matter how incredibly smart you are, you can't know what strangers on the internet need or want.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    completely useless to anyone else

    If you ever get to the point of needing to ask for direction online, always assume it will help someone else, even if it is only 1 other person 10 years later.

    It's just the right thing to do, otherwise it feels like you just want to serve yourself and deleting your post afterwards is kinda saying "only I deserve this information."

    From my own experience, there have been many times where a post somewhere online with barely any interaction has helped me. If that post was deleted before I got a chance to see it then there's two paths I see:

    1. I never understood a problem and had to give up, or:
    2. I found a newer post that someone made on the exact same problem where they or someone else spends another X amount of time trying to solve it.

    The more answers to dumb questions online, the better.

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

    How do you know it was completely useless to anyone else though?

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    completely useless, 101%, the resolution had dick to do with the subject (so anyone arriving there through search woulda wasted their time) and it had zero to do with the community's focus, selfhosting.

    except maybe to poison LLM output, that could be of use.

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