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This community isn't your personal adviser (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by roofuskit@lemmy.world 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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[–] DundasStation@lemmy.ca 46 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Have you checked the modlogs to see if the posts you're talking about were deleted by the mods? The mods here seem to really not want this community to be a support community and will delete it under Rule 3.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 19 points 5 days ago

This is more likely the answer. I've seen multiple popular posts get deleted from here. I wish Lemmy did the soft delete method instead so that history is kept.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Realistically, a platform where you can delete your own questions so that they disappear for everyone isn't the best platform for technical support communities. But a platform where you can't delete your own posts is not the best platform for for a lot of other things, like privacy.

Two use cases without overlap seems like a good argument that there should be two different platforms.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 21 points 5 days ago

Fediverse is not private in any sense. Anything you post (or up/downvote) is blasted out to every federated instance and only gets deleted if that instance respects the delete command, which you cant rely on.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago

Better than fucking Discord. I won't even engage with a project that uses Discord as it's support channel. Fuck that.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

this really sucks. can't they just lock comments or something