Submitted 10 months ago by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Every time I come back to a thread later - it’s gone. What gives? This is the only community on Lemmy or heck even on the internet in general where I’ve seen this, it’s so odd.
Because once the responses start rolling in, people realize that they asked a stupid question.
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.
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.
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.
Apparently a lot of questions are too stupid for /nostupidquestions
There are no stupid questions, only stupid people who ask questions. 🤣
why was the music thing deleted???
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.
Deleted by berator.
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.
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
What’s their motivation to do this?
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A number of possibilities
Etc