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.

  • Acamon@lemmy.world
    411·
    6 hours ago

    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…)

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    7 hours ago

    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…

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
    221·
    8 hours ago

    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.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    Can’t speak for the mods, but I think people who subscribe here also subscribe to the AskLemmy type communities and they don’t look at what community they’re in.

    Mods will do what mods will do. I think users should just downvote unhelpful comments anyway. I myself have voting (both ways) enabled, but I don’t see numbers or vote weight, but I think a lot of people do. So I don’t fully participate in the voting, but that is what it’s for.

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Some communities have downvoting disabled, but as an alternative to downvoting, you can also just not upvote the comment or report it if it actually breaks rules. I don’t think being rude in the comments is against the rules, but it isn’t nice, so I usually just ignore those comments.

  • woop_woop@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 hours ago

    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