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It's because there's a disproportionate number of bad-faith actors starting threads in this community.
Even though there's no stupid questions, it turns out that there are many terrible people.
What's their motivation to do this?
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
I truly do not understand this... it's a niche QA forum
NSQ has 40k subscribers, that's not "niche", at least for Lemmy.
It's an old pop culture reference, nothing more. I'm teasing people that think there's some value in up/down votes here or that posting then deleting things has some sort of tangible effect.
I guess some people haul their baggage with them wherever they happen to go.
A number of possibilities
Etc
Lemmy and the fediverse represent a way to get away from corporate controlled social media interest but is at the same time lacking in the resources to combat large scale operations for influence, propaganda and attacks
Not sure about here but on reddit they are looking to create narratives. It is a classic shill OP tactic
Most frustrating thing is it doesn't just delete the OP and hide the link but it nukes the entire thread and all replies.
There was a great thread yesterday about music with tons of recommendations that I saved to look at later only to find that it was deleted this morning and everything's gone. It's such a waste. Why even participate if it's just going to be deleted like this?
I used to track authors who post delete and block them when I notice a trend for this very reason in a diff community. It sucks putting in effort to make a reply and then having the entire chain get nuked from orbit.
I had a tech post that I put a bit of effort replying to get deleted after they had resolved the question, no reason for deletion just that they apperently don't like having posts connected to their account. so once their problem was solved they deleted the post. Discouraging.
Because once the responses start rolling in, people realize that they asked a stupid question.
I don't know why people have hard time owning the downvotes.
Shoot your shit, that your right, others have a right to react lol
Getting downvoted is a good training to resist the addiction.
Getting called out for your bullshit and owning up to it is a good training against hubris.
I delete comments or posts when I realise I've been dumb before anyone else.
Me when I ask a stupid question in No Stupid Questions (I have to delete my stupid question to follow the community name)
It's been over an hour. Why is this post still here?
People deleting their own posts, it looks like. There are not that many deletions by mods.
https://lemmy.world/modlog/4230?page=1&actionType=ModRemovePost
Yeah, it's sus asf but more likely a dumb cultural thing. Younger Zoomers are very technically inept generally and they get scared of leaving information up on the internet because they never learned to deal with "once it's up on the internet it's up forever" and create online personas completely separate from their real life.
why was the music thing deleted???
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people who ask questions. 🤣
deleted by creator
Okay serious answer:
For me, that is:
Weird thing to feel embarassment over but if people feel like they need to delete it, so be it
A lot if rules I guess:
Nah, mod logs are open on Lemmy, and the mod logs for this community tend to be relatively calm. It’s more likely due to people deleting their own posts, or content-farming bot accounts getting nuked.
AFAIK, a deleted account won’t show individual deletions in the mod logs for each community they were participating in. So if an account gets nuked by an admin, that wouldn’t necessarily show up in this community’s mod logs. But I’d have to actually dig into the mod logs to confirm that, and I’m not at my computer at the moment.
Apparently a lot of questions are too stupid for /nostupidquestions
I kind of get it in cases where no one has commented yet, and the OP realizes a mistake or how stupid a question it is. But once there’s engagement, I wish the OP would leave it up.
I’ve noticed this a lot lately: I’ll comment, my comment will get engagement, so I’ll check the thread again to reply or read other comments, do that, then come back later to follow up again, and it’s all been deleted. Like, even if the original post was stupid or embarrassing, the fact that there was genuine engagement, to me, means it shouldn’t be deleted.
But again, I understand the anxiety of leaving your own stupid words up if they really bother you, so I won’t lose sleep over this.
I’ve observed that anti- Trump things are being heavily censored on Lemmy.world “ask” type communities.
I might have believed the opposite, but anti Trump is a very acceptable stance around here.
You got an example?
Lemmy.world main subs was always regime propaganda but they were DNC shills, not MAGA types tho
I do!
My own post was removed as a response to a question about the biggest successful cons/grifts in history.
A felon fooling a third of the country has got to be the biggest successful con in history.
"Ask Lemmy" has an explicit "no US politics" rule. That's why your comment got deleted.
why was the post about music recommendations deleted?
There is nothing in the midlogs so I guess it has been deleted by the author. Only they know why.
Ah, well that makes a lot of questions unanswerable. But it does explain things and I’ve left that group.
I see this a new account so I won't ask you to compromise yourself but without a link it is hard to believe.
As @Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world pointed out, dunking on trump is generally acceptable on fedi.
Shitting on kamala during elections though, the bans were issued ruthlessly