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.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    It doesn’t make sense, either. There’s no rational reason to delete a thread after the question has been answered.

    Even if it wasn’t actually a person but was an AI agent asking questions so it can scrape the data from the answers, there’s no real utility in deleting the posts after receiving responses. It just seems so weird.

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      3 months ago

      Somebody pointed out that the person might be afraid they gave so much info that their post gets de-anonymized - but IMO people afraid of that shouldn’t post on public forums to begin with.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      It’s not that complicated. New user gets an answer, feels like the post isn’t relevant anymore, and deletes it without thinking.

      Still a massive dick move, but still.