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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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[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

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

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

On reddit they had bots that would automatically repost the content of the post so it couldn't be deleted.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

People do that? That's fucked up...

[–] modus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What the hell is the purpose?

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 1 points 23 minutes ago

I think some people are being a bit of privacy freaks, so they don't want to leave their data online. I still think its stupid tho cuz Ive posted questions, get a good response but forget after a while. Then when I do go back to remind myself, its deleted.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 1 points 41 minutes ago

Wondering the same thing, maybe they think the information about their private server and network setups will be used against them?

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 hours ago
[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] krypto@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 44 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

we need to make a list of usernames who are deleting their posts, regularly or even just twice

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

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