In an attempt to boost activity I’ve tried to answer a few questions in this, and similar communities. Looking for an old comment, I found out that a bunch of posts I’d answered are now *Permanently Deleted*, and what’s that about? If they’re LLM slop there’s enough of it I’d rather just block the community so as to not waste any time.
Because they asked a stupid question
… can’t really argue with that
Sometimes mods delete the post too. Some mods are extremely anal about the rules and will end up deleting a ton of posts.
If we (naively, I’m sure) assume they apply the rules as they’re actually written, those make a lot of sense. If they’re removing on rule 1 and 5 (no fake questions, especially for some agenda) then that’s basically the exact same suspicion I have myself for most of this. But then the majority traffic is spam or even more malicious. hm.
Some communities simply purge old posts.
Then they fucking stupid and we will never grow Lemmy as a legit site.
Some instances are hosted and paid for by people that don’t have lots of money. Purging old posts to save costs is a valid reason to do so. Whether or not that’s the case, I have no idea.
It depends on a particular community.
Communities like nostupidquestions are not expected to have posts with important news or problems one might google a year later.
Tech-focused communities, on the contrary, are expected to keep posts forever, so that important information will be accessible. However, some people delete their posts after their problem is solved. This is highely discouraged.
And Lemmy ain’t just one site. Yeah.
Hm. Kind of a weird thing to be doing then. I know storage prices are up and all, but that half kilobyte of text?
One post is a couple of kilobytes, but there are hundreds of posts daily, you know. Also comments, also attachments. And no community exists in vacuum, they are parts of much larger instance servers. So this is among the least disruptive ways to save storage space.
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It’s not, “No (such thing as) stupid questions”; it’s “no stupid questions!”
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That would explain it, because some of them really are pushing the suspension of disbelief. Which is why it’s especially annoying when I go out of my way to assume whoever is not actually completely taking the piss or some other kind of idiot, and treat the question reasonably seriously. Despite what it looks like…
Deleting it afterwards makes me very suspicious indeed because, bluntly, many of the “questions” already felt… stupid… in the wrong goddamn ways. Not necessarily dumber shit, but differently dumb shit than people used to ask on reddit before LLMs, hint hint.
Seriously, have you read some of this shit?
When I’ve seen it, it tends to be because OP disagrees with the responses being drummed up by their post.
Last time I saw it, it was for a post about a trans couple being attacked, and somehow the comments became about one guy claiming he’d have saved the day as a gun owner (totally ignoring that he’s not the only gun owner in America).
People backed him up, downvoting anyone saying it could have turned into a bloody shoot out, so OP deleted the comments.
Apparently people couldn’t manage to support trans rights without being pro-guns, and if you disagreed the crowd turned on you. America, where trans people and guns have to go hand in bloody glove.
Controversial.
