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Well OP. Looks like your post resulted in a moderator resigning and the appointment of two new moderators in this community. As I've said previously, it was a moderator removing posts for a very far stretch interpretation of Rule 3, and not users deleting them after getting the answer.
Let's hope this results in a better community for the selfhosters here.
And I'll use your comment as my post here for a local mod appointment of my lw account!
Thank you for the update!
Oh my GOD that's probably what happened to mine! I was discussing something on my last post and then suddenly the mod removed it because of "Rule 3". Because we were talking about selfhosting. Which, all selfhosting is on our own hardware..., but I think my post leaned more hardware than the mod liked. Super annoying when you're having a valid conversation, people are chiming in and helping, and then suddenly Removed: Arbitrary rule violation.
Let’s hope this results in a better community for the selfhosters here.
Wow! I just noticed that. Shit moves quickly on the tubes. Welcome our new overlords!
a moderator removing posts for a very far stretch interpretation of Rule 3
...stretch by which party? in the sense that the post not really about self-hosting (and OP tried to use rule 3 in a stretched interpretation), or that the post was about self-hosting but moderator applied it in unnecessarily strict way? The way you phrased it seems like the former, but then why would that result in moderator resigning?
(I'm not a native English speaker so sorry if it should have been clear.)
To give you some context, I initially made this comment on OP's post. Then I followed up with this comment after the resignation of a moderator on !selfhosted@lemmy.world.
I was referring to the former moderator's very bizarre interpretation of Rule 3. You'll see in the modlogs that many posts that were clearly about selfhosting getting removed under Rule 3.
I've never understood why the OP can nuke an entire thread full of comments. Not even reddit is that obtuse.
They didn't
It's a particularly egregious case of "fuck you, got mine"
It wasn't.
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.
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".
“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."
The spiritual heir to 'RTFM'
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
we need to make a list of usernames who are deleting their posts, regularly or even just twice
Yeah it's more than likely the same people doing it all the time.
Edit: either that or AI bots farming information from Lemmy to feed their databases.
None of that happened
It doesn't make sense, either. There's no rational reason to delete a thread after the question has been answered.
Even if it wasn't actually a person but was an AI agent asking questions so it can scrape the data from the answers, there's no real utility in deleting the posts after receiving responses. It just seems so weird.
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?
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
The way I read it is it's not the asking questions that is the problem at all, it's the deleting afterwards.
Where should people like me go to if I need help?
Here. Just don't delete the question after you get your answer.
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
It was a mod
Asking questions in a public forum (after searching imo) is generally a positive thing. Answers are then public and the next person with the question can find the answer. That sort of behaviour should be encouraged, and no one will ever complain about it imo.
Sure it's not also mods removing them?
https://lemmy.world/post/39025760
wtf? Half the post is nuked even after being locked. I don't even see how such a small community can be so stuck up about relevancy and purity washing selfhosted as if we all own our own DNS registrars and can do outbound SMTP.
I assume they did not read the post very clearly.
On reddit they had bots that would automatically repost the content of the post so it couldn't be deleted.
Has that been happening a lot here?
Lemmy in general, yes. Here in self hosted at least a couple of times that I've seen. Including earlier today. But I don't interact on every post.
I only find out because sometimes I like to go back to posts I comment on and see what additional information people have offered. (There's always something to learn.) Then I find the post has been deleted.
I absolutely detest how on lemmy deleting a post also nukes access to the comments. They’re still there, but there’s no way in many normally lemmy UI to get to them.