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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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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Hadn't noticed, but wow. I wonder what the motivation is to delete info that would help other people.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 27 points 5 days ago

"fuck you got mine"

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days 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.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Quote ppl you answer.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I try to remember to put [SOLVED] on any serious post I make, after the fact.

You (and folks who do the same) are unsung heroes. Thank you.

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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

dick move.

Which users are doing that so I can block them?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Pretty sure lots of the “deleted” posts were actually removed by the mods. Rule 3 seems to be a popular justification for post removal in this community, and it basically outlaws all of the “my server is having this issue, anyone got any ideas” types of posts that OP has cited.

While I agree it’s popular for removing posts, maybe it shouldn’t be. If we want users to organically find Lemmy, one of the best ways to do that is the same way users end up at Reddit: By googling an error code, and finding a five year old “Edit: I figured it out. Here is what I did” post.

Or maybe we just need to make (and properly support) a community that is dedicated to those kinds of posts. If a “my server is broken plz help” post isn’t relevant to /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world, maybe we need to make a /c/SelfHostedSupport to redirect the Rule 3 posts to.

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[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, this is nothing new. Forums have been dealing with this for decades. XKCD even made a comic about forum posts going stale.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not really the same issue. The xkcd is about unsolved or incompletely resolved issues. This Herr is about questions vanishing along with the answers.

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[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

On reddit they had bots that would automatically repost the content of the post so it couldn't be deleted.

[–] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 18 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I did notice a post that was looking for help, then apparently labelled "solved"... then deleted for some reason. 😞

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