There is no use for this thread to still be there. It should be deleted.
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You should be posting such issue thread in
https://forum.unity.com/forums/meta-forum-discussion.111/ rather in General.
Also please do not use Bolt font for whole text. It makes it bad to read. And it is unprofessional.
I haven’t seen you original post from OP.
But I can suspect, based on the thread title, you gave a feedback about Unity, which was aimed to Unity and possibly you have posted it as well in General sub forum. Which is none support related forum section. It is clearly stated there.
You are member of Unity forum since 2016, it is not your first post. Assuming tat it is indeed what did happen, what I wrote above, you basically wrote thread in the incorrect place.
People tend to abuse General sub forum, to grab attention of others, posting things which are not fit to General sub forum. This is unwelcome.
With limited amount of moderators and large volume of low effort threads, I am not supposed, to threads being removed, rather than moved.
Please help keeping Unity forum in the organised manner and in the correct places, when posting.
That thread seemed quite interesting to me. A collection of workarounds does not sound like a bad idea.
Albeit maybe it should really be rather in the support forums and not here, dunno.
No it was a collection of links to solutions/workaround to somewhat common issues of Unity. No arguing/judging or feedback.
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… it is generally a good idea to keep copies of all time-consuming things you wrote in a place you can control. Because information in resources you do not own is ephemeral and can be deleted at any time for any reason.
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I’ve seen the original post and at the time it had two entries linking to other forum posts. That just isn’t of value because someone searching for a particular issue on the Internet will find the linked posts first since they’ve seen more traffic and rank higher in search engines.
Someone searching the forum will not search for terms like “curated list of workarounds”.
Agreed. This place is ruled rather than moderated. I’ve had posts deleted and been warned about their content, but nothing explicit is said about what was wrong in them, and there’s no copy of the post DM’d to me for personal review. So I’m none the wiser as to what was “over the line” or otherwise offended, or wrong, or whatever.
In this case, there’s no webarchive of the thread, either. So I don’t know what to say, other than Mods, do a better Job. If ti’s content, please give it to this fellow.
At the very least, DM this poor chap his original content for his own personal sharing somewhere else, or in the right category or location, etc.
And perhaps make it a practice to DM anyone any content you delete for any reason, ever. And better explain the reasons, please!
I think regardless of the content, if this was not meant to be in X subforum it should have been moved to Y subforum, not deleted. I am sure even moderators would agree as that is supposed to be the policy as far as I am aware.
If not, it really should be as its counter-productive otherwise
consider making a small website for that type of thing. I get that you probably wanted for others to share and contribute, but it kinda defeats purpose of the forum. Forum is a curated list of bugs, workarounds, techniques, etc. If each of your workarounds was it’s own thread, much more searchable.
Thats true but it could have made a good sticky thread potentially, a website means others cant contribute their own workarounds.
I am not sure whats the best way to go about this but at least a thread allows more than the OP to contribute or at least discuss.
EDIT: I guess a wiki would solve that, but then it doesnt get the exposure. Newcomers will automatically find the unity forums way before some individuals wiki
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yeah i just meant for their own safe keeping but still can be found from google potentially too.
there are a few websites like that i have bookmarked. apparently just some random persons little stash of knowledge.
I don’t envy mods, everyone has a short fuse these days and topics can quickly get heated and things have been so drab lately the users are frustrated and the devs are exhausted, so this forum has kinda devolved into a barren landscape of frustrated gamedevs.
Maybe take a deep breath and think of ways of making the title feel more “general” for future threads. A title like “Let’s talk about solutions to common problems.”
I can relate to having posts nuked out of existence, it is frustrating. But overall the mod team here has been pretty fair IMO.
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I definitely think a sticky of workarounds and common issues could actually be a real benefit and the more I think of it the more I am surprised this doesnt exist on any of the subforums
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I saw the thread. In fact, you can still see the text of the thread via the cache on google. I think that should help people understand why it was probably deleted because not only was it really low effort, but it was also presented in such a way where it looked like the OP was partially using it as what could easily be an md file on github.
This really isn’t some grand, ultra helpful thread, or even a thread that was reasonably well put together. One of the linked threads in question even had the OP replying at the end after nearly a year of inactivity with the utterly unhelpful “having to do this workaround is bad” while the other was a thread where they were overtly still asking for help with an issue.
It was a bad thread and in one case sure seemed to be a pretty thinly veiled support request attempt.
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I believe this “General” one is better, I’ll probably start here next time I have the faith to do it. Unity Engine - Unity Discussions
The obvious idea in this sort of situation is to drop everything and go on a vacation so you can recover. Burnout is a threat to your health.
The best place is your blog and a link to your blog in your signature.
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I’m really not sure, as A blog which in turn will be a collection of Unity forum links? As someone said “but then it doesnt get the exposure. Newcomers will automatically find the unity forums way before some individuals wiki”
And I don’t have a blog and don’t want the added work of managing it. I’m really ok with people wanting blogs, I don’t. I’d rather a signature link to the forum thread.
This thread should have not become what it became. I just wanted the original moderator to DM me.
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Your thread was bad and in one case was practically begging for support with one of the links.
I would copy all worthwhile forum posts onto a blog. Then link to the blog from signature.
That’s because the whole forum is “ephemeral” (or was the word “transcient”). Meaning it is here today and might be gone tomorrow. Anything that takes half a hour to write can be at some point wiped as long as it is on a resource you do not control.
Regarding the “exposure” if the information is relevant it’ll be indexed by search engine so people will find it, and the idea is to preserve the information and not to let everybody learn about it. Forum doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic either.
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Closed, off topic.
The other thread was deleted because it was just a list of posts that interested you. It wasn’t a list of “common issues” it was just about 5 topics that solved issues you had, most posted by you, and none were common. The list was helpful to only you. So just make bookmarks. Ideally this whole forum is full of issues that solve problems that people have. Use the search or google search.
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