This community isn't your personal adviser
2026-06-04 18:08 UTC
Replies (15)
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-06-05 01:55
I don’t get it. why are they deleting their posts?
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@whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 2026-06-05 03:13
Op pls delete this post
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@goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-06-04 22:45
Sure it’s not also mods removing them? lemmy.world/modlog/116
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@queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-06-04 21:11
I have mixed feelings on post deletion. On the one hand, historical technical forum conversations are an incredibly valuable resource, and /c/selfhosted is a technical community. The value comes from having a history in context, and deleting part of the context damages the whole and makes the whole corpus less useful overall. It also allows incorrect or outdated information to fester when there isn’t a strong historical context that can be referenced. On the other hand, people are right to be concerned about leaving large tracts of text available on the open internet, where it can be scraped, profiled, and possibly de-anonymized. I am very sympathetic to those who delete out of concerns for their own privacy, and I don’t know what a good solution is. Maybe a compromise would be (on user “delete") to leave the contents of a post intact, but simply delete the username from the post, and the post from the user’s history? Deletion on the fediverse is a bit of a sham anyway, and it would leave valuable discussions intact for other users.
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@kiol@discuss.online 2026-06-05 03:31
How is building a collective knowledge base possible without gathering the advice of others here?
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@Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2026-06-05 05:30
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread: Fewer Letters More Letters CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material DNS Domain Name Service/System SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [Thread #0 for this comm, first seen 5th Jun 2026, 05:30] [FAQ] [Full list] [@Two9A@hachyderm.io] [Source code]
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@dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2026-06-05 03:19
I just want to apologize for being the person who asks questions and then doesn’t respond to the comments. I get overwhelmed D: but I’d never delete my post, what’s the purpose in that?
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@anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 22:54
Quote ppl you answer.
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@yuman@programming.dev 2026-06-05 06:51
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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@Gonzako@lemmy.world 2026-06-05 07:21
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
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@argent@dook.business 2026-06-05 07:29
@roofuskit@lemmy.world https://xkcd.com/979/
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@Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 2026-06-05 07:31
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?
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@titanicx@lemmy.zip 2026-06-05 22:28
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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@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-05 05:32
we need to make a list of usernames who are deleting their posts, regularly or even just twice
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@LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2026-06-05 00:15
Who’s downvoting this?? Ban those moronic leeches. They’re either anti-community or have the reading comprehension of a potato, ffs.