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.

  • Schilling2304@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    18·
    16 hours ago

    Someone may have the same question in the future and there will be answers. You not responding is not that bad but it is even better that you do and provide an update to your situation, if you wish.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Someone may have the same question in the future and there will be answers.

      With 8.4 billion people on this planet, I can’t be the only one asking the question.

      • foo@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        For technical issues I’ve come to the conclusion that if there are no other people asking the same question, then I need to re-think my approach, because I’m probably doing something silly.

      • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        and if everyone who asks that question has that mindset then we end up with no answers longterm.

        its annoying to scroll through 15 threads asking the same thing looking for an answer, but its infinitely worse to find no threads related to what you’re trying to do.

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      15 hours ago

      Editing original post and including steps which helped would be great. I don’t expect anyone to reply to each an every comment separately, but a summary on what caused the problem and what fixed it would be nice. Specially when someone later finds the post with similar issue.