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

submitted 19 hours 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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[-] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

completely useless to anyone else

If you ever get to the point of needing to ask for direction online, always assume it will help someone else, even if it is only 1 other person 10 years later.

It's just the right thing to do, otherwise it feels like you just want to serve yourself and deleting your post afterwards is kinda saying "only I deserve this information."

From my own experience, there have been many times where a post somewhere online with barely any interaction has helped me. If that post was deleted before I got a chance to see it then there's two paths I see:

I never understood a problem and had to give up, or:
I found a newer post that someone made on the exact same problem where they or someone else spends another X amount of time trying to solve it.

The more answers to dumb questions online, the better.

this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026

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