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submitted 1 week ago by roofuskit@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is there any way for a community to disallow post deletion? If not, this seems like a needed feature.

[–] Winter_Oven@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

or maybe a feature where posts cannot be deleted past a time period + amount of engagement.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Good point. If a post is two minutes old with no replies, may as will let folks change clean up their misclicks.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These would have to be added to Lemmy development, because currently I can delete a post of my own on a community on another instance and there isn't a technical way to prevent it. Reporting and banning for behavior is tricky too unless you manage to remember the username of who posted it.

So, that's an uphill battle at the development level and the moderation level.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What if I accidentally posted to the wrong community? Or posted something with a username/password in it? Or accidentally selected a picture of my penis wearing a little monocle and top hat to this community?

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Requesting mod action would probably work.

Unless there is no active mod.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

maybe just edit it to omit those info? (we don't preserve edit history right?)