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.

    • OpenAltFinder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      It’s just another type of advertising to them. Ask a question trying to solve a problem, then use your alt account to shill your own solution.

      • tburkhol@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        Doesn’t work that way on lemmy: if they delete the post, then the alt’s shilling disappears, too.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            I’m not against it, post something it the wrong place, or during a bender. Would be kinda cool if lemmy tracked user starts on deletes like it does on posts and comments

            • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              I’m still undecided about their own text (deleting comments or post text disrupts the conversation but there’s valid reasons), but I don’t think the OP of a thread should have any control over the existence of that full comment thread.

              • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                3 hours ago

                Maybe some form of engagement or time limit would serve. If the post is empty or low engagement and less than 2 days old, it can go. After that it’s up to mod?

                • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  3 hours ago

                  Or just do it like reddit did, where you can delete your post content and remove your username from it, but the thread and comments remain.

                  Though with how the fediverse works, it’s possible to spin up a custom instance that highlights deleted content instead of deleting it, meaning the attempt to get rid of it can be what brings it more attention if anyone has decided to do it. Just like with vote identities, they aren’t anonymous and there are instances/sites that just show who voted for what.

        • OpenAltFinder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          I think it’s more so that they can post the same thing frequently, hoping that it gets burned into peoples’ brains.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      I don’t get it either, but it was also a big problem on Reddit for years.

      • OpenAltFinder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        12 hours ago

        On Reddit especially, it usually was people asking a question, then having their alt account respond with whatever they were trying to shill, and just doing that over and over again.