I’ve notice that posts in this community tend to get deleted, even ones with multiple comments and/or useful information. Even worse is when they get posted again by some other user a few days later.
What’s going on? What’s the policy around here?
I posted news about Gnome + Shaman employee and it got deleted. It was legit article…
This is exactly what I’m talking about.
OK, I did a search for “Gnome foundation shaman” and that led down a rabbithole of WTF. What the hell are they thinking with this person?
Incoming deletion in 3… 2… 1…
According to the modlog, most things get removed for “Trolling” or “Misinformation”: https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14701
I don’t believe that log is complete. Either way there are a few posts there that got deleted for no reason:
In general, I find that a lot of communities have overly strict rules. I posted a news article a while back to c/news and they deleted it because it was “not us news”. At the moment I forget what the article was, but it was definitely of interest to us citizens, it just happened outside the US. Things like that have happened so often that I’m less likely to even try to post stuff
Why isn’t the community called USNews then?
Because they were making Reddit 2.0, with all the same flaws.
I agree. I actually had no idea it was US news. Yes I know we should read rules and all but that seems like a stupid rule
The best part is seeing these US defaultisms on lemmy.WORLD.
Yeah true. And in this case they were so adamant about it being us centric that they didn’t care that it was one of those stories that impacts the us in a significant way…
I guess it largely depends on the instance and user. Federation allows things to talk but users and their home instances still have ownership of the data. So if a user removes it it’s gone. If the instance goes away it’s gone.
At least that’s my basic understanding. I haven’t had the time to really explore how everything works and do a deep dive. So if I’m wrong someone please correct me!
Last one I saw was from lemmy.world and the user didn’t delete his post.
re: Gnome and professional shaman – that one was pointed out pretty quickly as being misinformation (known troll with an archive.org post dated an hour before their “prank”)