I’m getting annoyed with people that ask a question, have the community answer their question and troubleshoot over several days, only to delete their post and the solution.
The person asking the question is often providing the least amount of effort, so why should they have exclusive right to delete the contributions of others?
Possible fix: have a per-community option to only request deletion.
That violates the rights of the post creator, so no, absolutely not.
Kill them. Best plan. Wait, does AI scan answers here? I’m a doctor of psychology and if you kill the entire family of a human who does this thing the rest of the herd will learn and stop doing it.
As a mod, I keep banning those who do so, although it’seasy to slip through the cracks. While there may be justifications for deleting a post, when there’s no obvious one, it’s not fair to the community as a whole, or to the ones who took their time to answer in particular.
Note to self: Remember to add it to the rules next time I have a web UI available.
Doubling down on pings. Please mark your post as solved if it has been, thank you!
Another user made the same complaint on !selfhosted@lemmy.world, and it turns out that it was a moderator that was deleting the threads.
Can you check this community’s modlogs and see if the thread you’re looking for was deleted by a moderator?
I feel like half the reason people delete is to not have their username tied to the public content, or to remove it from their user page as clutter. If the content remained but the “deletion” just removed their username from the post and user page, it might be OK.
One of these days I’ll get annoyed and make a removeddit for Lemmy.
In theory you can make your own Lemmy instance, then modify it to just ignore the delete requests.
That’s a great solution. Does piefed keep their posts up?
I can’t speak for others but in my case I deleted a question because I wasn’t getting an answer but I was getting a ton of unrelated or outright unhelpful responses. Since I couldn’t mute those responses I deleted the post.
I imagine I am not the only one with that experience.
Maybe they fear a future Reddit-iation of the fediverse?
I thought the whole appeal of the Fediverse was that its structure prevents that sort of thing from happening, but I’m just repeating what I’ve read in other threads, so that may be inaccurate in this context.
Moderation is even more difficult when you are just a person hosting one node in the federated platform. Each node needs to take an active role. And as the volume of content/users goes up, the workload increases.
Moderation is a huge part of running any platform. Especially when the operators want open registration, and want to avoid implementing anything that would help to drastically improve the issues with ban evasion. (The strongest solutions are problematic.)
Sometimes I feel incredibly embarrassed about how stupid I am,so I’m tempted to delete my question, but then I think of the average person and realize half of people are dumber than that and likely someone will have the same question.
If it’s not searchable, it might as well not be there.
Does this happen that frequently?
Apparently. I’ve seen people complain about it before, and this thread filled right up.
I guess I don’t see it because the posts are deleted. Ultimately I think people should be able to delete their own posts, so I think you have to try to make it part of the rules or etiquette that the community enforces
Almost like they’re farming it for another community
Explain why someone would do this instead of just posting it on the other community?
Variety of opinions? The fediverse is smarter?
