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"
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As much as I hate to say it OP, but when somebody ask a question they are asking for their own personal needs. And community is like this are actually here to serve an individuals questions. If that's not the point of why you're here then maybe what you should do is start a new thread world whatever it's called here that's called spell posted library or something like that so that way you can create a community fact sheet about how to do things. Why somebody delete stuff who knows people are weirdly private about openly public things. Maybe people feel embarrassed about asking your question or move it. It's who the hell knows. But in the end it is their threat to ask questions and if you choose not to answer a question and then you don't have to. However your time that you took to answer their question did not get wasted as they chose to take that advice and run with it. Just because your question now has to be read explain or your answer has to be reacclaimed in another thread doesn't mean that it wouldn't have to be explained in another thread anyways. You're never going to point to this thread or that thread and say the answer was already here the answer was already there. That's not how communities like this actually work.
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Protip, if you think about what you post before you post it, you don't have to scrub the record after the fact. :D
Who's downvoting this?? Ban those moronic leeches. They're either anti-community or have the reading comprehension of a potato, ffs.
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