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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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[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 12 hours ago
[-] mlg@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 5 hours ago

It's a major pet peeve of mind when places get overly zealous about moderating what is on or off topic when the volume of posts doesn't warrant it. Especially when there has already been some discussion on the posts.

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Had that same thing happen to me recently too

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Mod had deleted my posts that I feel were relevant as not relevant.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago

Wow a lot of those mod-deleted posts were very interesting for me

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 32 points 11 hours ago
[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 11 hours ago

Looks like it's hybridsarcasims favorite rule

[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 26 points 8 hours ago

Wow crazy I couldn't imagine that this community gets enough posts to warrant so aggressively enforcing rules about the content.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 hours ago

Some people think that keeping a community laser focused attracts more readers through quality. It’s an ideal that I respect, but I’ve never really observed that to be true in reality.

If you’re reading this @HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz consider this my polite feedback that I completely get what you’re trying to accomplish but you might be working harder than you need to be.

[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

Exactly, I could understand it on the huge subreddits with one question per minute, but here is so silent...

Plus, as a user, when a mod deletes a post that I took over ten minutes to write, I go "fuck It" and stop contributing altogether (this also includes replying to other posts)

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