Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 should say it’s a stupid question (although, having read through the thread I don’t see anyone saying that to you…)

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Veganism is a religion now?

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid

  No you didn’t…

  I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid.

  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…

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You got a lot of genuine replies engaging with your thoughts. I’d focus on that over the negative.

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 breaking any rules, the other users are usually good at putting people straight.

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I find your question stolid hehehe

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid children”

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Moderation isn’t instantaneous. Reports help make it faster.

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• SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Outside of your question, there has been some rage bait:

  lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/38413203

  I think it would be appropriate for these conversations to be flagged and locked. I thought there was a lot more, but it seems to have been a while.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The community name is asperational, maybe someday it will be reality.

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• woop_woop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 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

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