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We do have pinned posts - but due to other issues, these may not always sync through to each instance. Believe me, I wish they did. :)
Please do keep pointing out rule #3 about support. Please also go ahead and flag threads (and especially comments!) for the mods. We're a small team and the extra help would be great.
Currently, we're being a little more lax with the support questions because of how new Lemmy is. Once the platform has matured a bit more, we'll move to being more strict about enforcing our rules on support questions.
Edit: Ignore me, I'm a dumbass and forgot which instance I'm looking at.
That sounds fair. Because this community has given me better answer than what I could get at support.
Indeed, right now we're one of if not the largest questions community, even larger than [email protected], so there are more resources here than other places.
even larger than [email protected],
This community is [email protected] - unless I missed something?
Oh crap, I forgot which asklemmy I'm on, I'm a dumbass.
Oh dang. I didnβt even realize this either until reading this lol
I feel better about my constant confusion now. :D
I think it will get better when search engines start indexing everything. Right now it's pretty hard to find any answers for lemmy outside of lemmy, so I could see how it can be confusing for new users trying to figure it out.
Fully agreed.
To be fair, this is somewhat true of [email protected] as well - but we want to make sure the interesting questions aren't drowned out by the support questions.
That would be useful. Rules are currently on the sidebar, but most mobile users don't see them.
Okay, I just noticed that such a post already exists but for some reasons, the pinned state doesn't federate correctly. On lemmy.ml it's pinned to the top, on my personal instance the post has a pin icon but appears way down.
Same on mine, pinned posts tend to be tricky for federation it seems. Hopefully fixed in a future Lemmy version
Moderation removal also isn't federating correctly, there are two open issues on GitHub:
Isn't it considered polite to read the rules/sidebar before posting in a new community or forum?
It is to me, but I guess that's not the case for everyone
I was thinking about suggesting a default bot response to every post. Something along the lines of βhey are you looking for actual lemmy support? If so go hereβ¦β
I normally hate autoreply bots with a vengeance, but here is a clear case where it is needed!