this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
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Shouldn't the mods remove those posts and tell them to post at [email protected] ?

I think it's a good way to organize the community and grow the ones with less engagement.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This community got voted to be a collector community for all of the programming content in the instance

So that kind of thing is allowed to be posted here and people in the comments can give people communities to crosspost it to lead them towards that area for future posts

This makes it so users can be lead to other communities in the instance to then post in instead of not knowing where to do so (if theyre in another instance they cant browse our local communities very well in the default UI without needing a third party site)

I can add a way to automate that with a bot in the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the /r/HTML community. It's only purpose was a catchall to guide new programmers to appropriate communities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

/c/HTML

we don't talk about r anymore here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

cool, thank you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think our communities are too small to worry about narrowing them. When they get too big that's when it makes sense to split them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree about the increase on other communities (in particular the cs career questions you mentioned). I am not sure about deleting them, specifically since I consider these parts of this community as well. Just my 2 cents ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

true, might not be a good idea to delete them

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would report instead of posting about it, which is even more off topic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree about the paradox of posting about it. But the other comments here indicate that we should only direct the poster to a different community instead of reporting them.