I wrote this before

I spotted Dessalines posted literal propaganda on some community I joined

gotta be honest that does not sit well with me

Because, in my experience, LLMs are pretty unreliable. You know how it likes to “hallucinate”, or in other words, make up stuff

Yeah don’t do that

Wikipedia is an internet gem

(already had a feeling that someone will say this)

I won’t delete my posts/comments because I want to be helpful, that’s it.

But if I prefer deleting my posts/comments, I will archive it instead.

I respect what r/ArtFundamentals did, and it should be an example: After reddit’s APIpocalypse, they don’t support reddit and decided to close the subreddit. But the advices from the subreddit wasn’t gone–in fact they actually archive it in their own website:

https://drawabox.com/r/artfundamentals/

That’s why when I left reddit I don’t delete my posts (even if those posts suck)

Bonus:

As a software engineer…

Don’t just say “just Google it”. Guide them to the documentation. Ask them about the detail of the question. If it’s an bug, try asking them if they can reproduce the bug.

This reminded me of the time I’m looking for how to do certain things in a software. I found a reddit post asking about the same issue and this is the reply OP got:

Here is the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/mupjsf/how_to_showhide_i3status_bar_taskbar/

Imagine. You search the issue you have. Found the ONLY reddit thread that talks about this, and the ONLY thread that talks about the issue have NO USEFUL ANSWER and, worse, the only reply is TELLING YOU TO SEARCH IT YOURSELF. This got upvoted too 😭😭😭.

Luckily, I found the solution (tbh the solution was there in the docs, but the wording wasn’t clear and it makes it hard to search) and I end up replying the OP the actual answer.

So, this is a PSA for the fediverse: be nice. It’s free.

While we’re still young, we have a chance to become a better forum.

Also possibly an unpopular opinion: you shouldn’t downvote a question, even if it was asked multiple times. Guide them to the answer instead

Reminds me of Malaysia’s .com.my

Noted, thanks

I wanted something like Skyscrapercity forum but on Lemmy, or something similar to r/transit.