I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid. My reply telling them to stop being rude and answer the question if they want to comment was removed by the mods.
Final edit: based on mod logs it appears this OP is being disingenuous, but the below still stands. We appreciate anyone who reports in good faith, and welcome any messages if you feel like we got things wrong.
Please report those, we will remove them. If we removed your comment for being rude and not theirs, then we did not read their rude comment calling the question stupid, and that’s our bad.
Also, my DM’s are always open if you disagree with a removal, anyone who has spoken with me before will vouch that I’m fairly reasonable as long as things don’t break rules (such as gray areas).
Edit: could you link the comment you’re talking about? The only thing I could find is this, which doesn’t appear to be what you’re talking about, but the response you gave to them was rude
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This is the person I had to block on the post for being rude to me so yes. That’s the comment I had an issue with. I can’t read it anymore because I blocked the poster. It was reported for not being on topic and being rude. And yes my reply to that rude comment was also rude.
My comment was removed and the off topic rude reply to my OP was left up
I’m not sure where this is rude or off-topic to your question, it is direct but on-topic:
You can do pretty much whatever you want man…
Like “vegan” isn’t even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.
You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.
Or you can make up your own name and rules.
People searching for labels they like and then conforming to every fucking aspect of that label and nothing else, doesn’t work out well.
So please, if you want to eat roadkill just do it.
And then this is your rude reply to that comment, which violates the rules:
Cool comment but did you want to answer the question, or just bitch about nothing?
They didn’t break a rule, you did and so your comment was removed. Not to even mention, none of this follows what you claim in this post. Nowhere did they say the question was stupid, and they did stay on-topic.
I have a dislike of mods in general because most suck. But daaaaaaammnnn. Idk if you’re even a mod but i assume you are and i now like you.
Stupid questions exist. Allowing them into this forum is a failure of the moderator(s). /s
I think your absolutely right that people shouldn’t call a question stupid in c/nostupidquestions. But they can and should criticise a question for being a rant disguised as a question (eg. “Why are X people so stupid?”). More borderline is a questions that maybe meant in good faith but seems to have so many problematic assumptions built-in, that it’s difficult to even engage with fairly. It might not be a stupid question, but it’s been phrased in a way that makes so many wrong assumptions, that answering it becomes an unnecessarily difficult chore.
I saw your question about veganism, and I can imagine some people took it as way of poking vegans. Vegans get a lot of hassle online, and are often asked to justify this or that, so asking “why don’t they eat roadkill” (in so many words) could be seen as not coming from a genuine place of curiosity. I’m not saying your question wasn’t genuine, but I can imagine that other people thought so.
I do think your question falls into the “too many dumb assumptions”. There were responses along the lines of “vegans don’t eat meat, so of course they don’t eat meat that has died naturally”. And you responded with “I meant the philosophy not the diet”. If that’s true, then it was a “badly phrased” question, not a “stupid” one.
Nostupidquestions is meant to be a place to ask questions that you feel like you should know, or everyone else seems to know. If you ask confusing or misleading questions, it’s reasonable for people to respond with “that’s not what veganism means” or whatever. But I do 100% think people shouldn’t say it’s a stupid question (although, having read through the thread I don’t see anyone saying that to you…)
Never once did I suggest eating roadkill it was all the comments in the post that did that. And clearly I still have a better handle on the concept than anyone who just posted that that’s not vegan because the definition of vegan is you don’t eat meat.
Imo the theme is questions that you’re slightly embarrassed to ask because you think you should already know it. Thinly disguised rants, sea lioning, and fetish exploration (yes I’ve seen that here) don’t qualify.
Basically a lot of the posts here are in bad faith and hide behind the same premise OP is pushing.
I mean, the problem isn’t that OP’s question was stupid. The problem is that it is rude to question people’s religious practices.
and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid
No you didn’t…
https://lemmy.world/post/39082490
My reply telling them to stop being rude and answer the question if they want to comment was removed by the mods.
Looking at the modlog, you had one comment removed for being flippant and not contributing to the conversation. Which is what you’re claiming doesn’t happen…
I find this question VERY stupid, and I’m sure I’m NOT the only one.
I tried to find out what you were referring to - was it the rude person in the vegan thread? If you look, they were pretty heavily rebutted and downvoted by the other users.
The mods uphold the community guidelines, ideally without overreach. If someone’s out of line, but not technically breaking any rules, the other users are usually good at putting people straight.
Why are you asking this question? It sounds more like a rant.
I’m sure you know moderation is neither instantaneous nor perfect. So that makes this a rant instead if a genuine question.
“Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid children”
Moderation isn’t instantaneous. Reports help make it faster.
Have you ever heard the expression/joke:
There’s no stupid questions, except that one?
I take it that way. And mods can only work so fast, like others have said.
For what it’s worth, I think you had an interesting question in the other thread and most of the replies were overall either unhelpful, dumb in-and-of-themselves, or aggressive in the way that shows a person is just angry cause they can’t answer for their own beliefs in a good way and they know it
The community name is asperational, maybe someday it will be reality.
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thats not cricket, you cant replay to a
No Stupid Questionswith thats stupid.Flag it with the mods!
