Clojurians Log v2
spam-reports
Is this still the right place to report DM spam?
Maybe we should device a dedicated way to do this, but it for now I think this is the best place.
Well, I got this, and they're posting on a few public channels too
Deactivated.
Please don't take this as SPAM, lmao.
hah yeah, I got that too
how else
A thing that could be good to know is that if you have muted a thread and then get tagged in it, then you get auto-subscribed to it again. So if someone leaves a thread and says so, it's better to contact that person in other ways than to tag them in that thread. It happened to me a few times today, which is fine, I'ma a big boy, but anyway, good to know, at least.
something I've had happen a few times now is someone asks a question, and I start a thread to engage with it, and then the question asker deletes their post (unclear why?), which deletes the thread too. You want to delete what you wrote? fine, but deleting what I wrote doesn't seem very friendly. I guess I am wondering what the community norms around this are?
Hmm, that's interesting. I can delete e.g. my own message that started a thread. But I can't delete the whole thread even though my message has started it. A quick googling shows that it's possible via the API though.
that is even wilder then
I’ve seen this happen a few times recently and to me it’s selfish. The question asker gets the benefit of the community response to their question, but others don’t enjoy the same benefit.
I was under the impression that deleting a message left a visible tombstone, but my recent testing in #slack-help has shown this not to be the case either
it seems like there is some deeper mystery afoot because the entire thread with this question is just gone (@dpsutton may have commented on it too at some point?), but that typically doesn't happen when deleting from the slack client
yeah i commented there as well. And i was confused when i came back to this workspace and the thread sidepane was just a 404 type message
we discourage it and have called out a few people by name. I don’t know where this social convention comes from.
my best guess is beginners have a “sorry to have bothered you for this question” type thing and I try to fight that by saying questions are great. I’ll focus on my tone and being explicit about that in the futuer
I think it's really rude to delete an original post after people have responded and tried to help -- but having an orphan thread with questions asking the OP for clarity on a non-existent question is just kind of a waste of space and folks might click into the thread, wondering what the now-deleted post was about. If the responses contain example solutions, or standalone explanations of issues that the OP was facing then, fine, they add value -- but if the thread is just asking the OP for details and none are provided and the OP deletes their original question, there's no point in keeping those questions around since it's clear no one is going to answer them...
I guess the OP's post is preserved on the clojureverse log website (zulip's mirror deletes posts that were deleted on Slack but logbot does not), so folks could go to the clojureverse log and copy'n'paste the OP's original question back into the thread -- which would at least preserve some context.
Ya, I find that annoying too @hiredman. I think that deleting a post before anyone comments on it (thread or otherwise) is probably fine, but afterwards, it seems discourteous to me. • It doesn't acknowledge and respect the time folks took to reply. • It robs others of learning from the discussion. On the other hand, I am the king of typos, so I often go back and edit my posts.
I'm sure at least half of my posts show "(edited)" at the bottom. :D
Mine as well!