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.

  • happydoors@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 minutes ago

    I haven’t seen the posts (probably from deletion) but Lemmy to me is an invaluable source of smart Linux and selfhosters. Seems like a great place to ask questions for problem to me on the surface. Where should people like me go to if I need help? Genuinely asking

  • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    This is the same thing as posting on a forum a question, then saying never mind I figured it out WITHOUT STATING THE ANSWER! When googling shit and coming across this back in the day I would get more mad at those than my issue.

  • Gonzako@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    11 hours ago

    Oh, I thought this was about me since I just asked for file transfer stuff but you’re specifically talking about deleting it right after. It happened to me on asklemmy where the user deleted it right after

    • krypto@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      Asking questions in a public forum (after searching imo) is generally a positive thing. Answers are then public and the next person with the question can find the answer. That sort of behaviour should be encouraged, and no one will ever complain about it imo.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah it’s more than likely the same people doing it all the time.

      Edit: either that or AI bots farming information from Lemmy to feed their databases.

  • Trilogy3452@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    It’d be helpful to put some links to known good resources for common questions in the e.g. about page.

    Also are you suggesting we don’t ask or don’t ask and then delete?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    18 hours 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.

    • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      There are a couple of accounts who were doing this regularly for some reason on all sorts of different topics. But I would need to see more evidence of this happening. As someone else mentioned it could be mods or a couple rare cases or all sorts of things.

      • zuana@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        Lately in all of the lemmys like each time I go to look at my replies (if I ever get one), the reply, my comment, and the thread are all gone. I’m often thinking it’s mods just nuking threads because of inflammation or whatever.

        • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          Weird, I see that pretty rarely and is usually because the post broke some rule (offtopic, duplicate, etc)

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      12 hours ago

      that will help somewhat in the future when lemmy gets its shit together, but since I came to lemmy deleted posts cannot be loaded at all, even though the server still has the comments

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 hours ago

    I haven’t noticed many posts deleted by the user themselves. I see a lot of ‘deleted by user’ comments. I try to remember to put [SOLVED] on any serious post I make, after the fact. That way, someone searching can cross-moginate whatever their issues are with what solved the issue for me. Maybe the user deleting the post once it was solved is embarrassed they asked a supposedly ‘stupid’ question?

  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    22 hours ago

    Protip, if you think about what you post before you post it, you don’t have to scrub the record after the fact. :D

  • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    Not seen that on Lemmy, but it’s definitely been a problem on reddit for years. Agree with you - the questions and answers (and even the wrong answers) are valuable to anyone else searching for the same issue. “I got my answer, now fuck y’all”