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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That's even more infuriating than when you used Google to find a thread where someone asks the exact question you have, and there is only one response and it's someone saying "use Google".

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“use Google”.

It makes me cringe when I see it in a forum. *Imagine you come to a forum designed to help people do , you ask a question, and the response is 'Google exists. Piss off."

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

The spiritual heir to 'RTFM'

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've lost count of the snarky 'let me google that for you' links I've found doing niche searches in the pre-AI days.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

https://xkcd.com/979/

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Especially when it builds you up over multiple posts that make it sound more and more like your exact problem.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Came across that so many fucking times that it's burned into my psyche. I will go out of my way to list the answer, especially now google is a wet pile of shit technically