Why was my post archived?
Posted by AppointmentWhich8128@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 26 comments
The community was actually engaging on https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1sf80v4/comment/oevm3sy/ and I was getting some decent insight?
This is not a "trivially searchable" issue. Unless mods would care to provide me the trivial answer :)
engineered_academic@reddit
I did. Your post essentially is a googleable question, but especially when you are dealing with the movement of funds is generally highly regulated your regulator is going to determine what is allowed for auditability. Logs metrics and traces are generally NOT allowed as evidence to an auditor because logs are not guaranteed to be a complete record of anything. Lots of things can stop logs, metrics, and traces from being ingested properly, become modified, or deleted to hide impropriety.
ACID and non-repudiation (or just googling consistency and auditability in financial architectures) can get you the answer that you need. For everything else, there's Designing Data Intensive Applications.
ImSoCul@reddit
Anything is technically "google-able". I didn't see the original thread but seems from this response alone that there was plenty of nuance. I do see a fair share of people making "rebuttal threads" to flame a mod after they make some toxic post, but this one 100% feels like just heavy handed moderation for no reason, and no willingness to admit a mistake.
Inb4 I get banned too
engineered_academic@reddit
lol I can take criticism without getting butthurt and admit when I am wrong.
Alright /u/AppointmentWhich8128, repost your post and I'll let it stand. Ping me when you have done it and I'll mark it as approved.
Also I know one of you is gonna flag it as no googleable questions again.
Also if anyone gets any ideas, people should try modmail before making a post.
aookami@reddit
literally the best mod ive ever seen in 15 years of reddit
absolute GOAT
ImSoCul@reddit
Fair play and taking it on the chin. Props to you
sod1102@reddit
This is especially funny when many top google results just wind up pointing you to a reddit post
engineered_academic@reddit
Its not my fault Google sucks ass nowadays. Have you tried asking ChatGPT? I hear that's all the rage these days and gives you exactly right answers and is never wrong. /s
leaving_the_tevah@reddit
It's not your fault, but in our new age of enshittification the reality is that "it's googleable" isn't really true anymore and therefore is not a good standard/litmus test for taking down a post in your capacility as a mod
dockercub@reddit
You need to step outside and talk to people, because it sounds like you don't. People have conversations over things that are googleable all the time. And just because you know it, doesn't mean everybody else does.
Community is not built over telling people to look things up. It's about empowering others and learning from one another.
Choice_Supermarket_4@reddit
Real Question: Is what's "google-able" open to anyone's personal discretion or is there an actual bar for what qualifies and how is that communicated in the rules?
Should we all start reporting anything that we can personally google?
Isn't "Read 'Designing Data Intensive Applications'" an answer to like 40% of posts that don't get taken down?
engineered_academic@reddit
Next time i'll just close the post with "Read DDIA", that'll show 'em! I'll allow OP to repost and mark his post as approved then if people feel so strongly about it.
Choice_Supermarket_4@reddit
Lol. That would honestly be a fun April Fool’s prank next year.
engineered_academic@reddit
Next year, next year...
AppointmentWhich8128@reddit (OP)
Did you even read the post? My post was more geared towards incident debugging than compliance requirements
> ACID and non-repudiation (or just googling consistency and auditability in financial architectures) can get you the answer that you need. For everything else, there's Designing Data Intensive Applications.
"Exercise is left as an exercise to the reader". Lol, ok. Nice one dude
engineered_academic@reddit
And my point was incident debugging with logging as a source of truth can be misleading depending on the type of incident you are looking into.
Fair_Local_588@reddit
This sounds more like you knew the answer to this and considered it trivial vs it was truly a trivial question. I see tons of design questions here that I would consider “google-able” or trivial based on my experience, but rarely see them closed like this.
aookami@reddit
yep, deleting the tread was a mistake
midasgoldentouch@reddit
The second edition just dropped too. Use those continuing education funds y’all!
YMMVwithme@reddit
This place is way over moderated. I had a post recently talking about how I got rejected for a role for not having a BSCS, while having an MSCS. The post was gaining a lot of momentum for the brief time it was up but some mods took it down since it didn’t fit the theme of the sub according to them. Like let experienced devs discuss things that they find important.
wmichben@reddit
In my short time here, I've realized this might be the most over-moderated sub I've visited. I saw another post get removed this week because the discussion topic could also be applied to something other than being an experienced developer.
Shutting down conversations among peers over something "Googleable" is ridiculous. Reddit is for discussions. It is not merely an alternative to Google.
donniedarko5555@reddit
Mods were clearly stack-overflow veterans 🙃
mercival@reddit
A lot of decent contributions and discussions there too.
Logging (or not) 1 million requests a second isn’t a solved answer from Google or a YouTube video. Lots of nuance and app/industry specific advice.
AppointmentWhich8128@reddit (OP)
mods, please tell us the answer with your infinite wisdom!
Material_Policy6327@reddit
Watch they will just lock this thread lol
yad76@reddit
That's weird. I saw your post and was actually actively thinking of a response based on my own experiences. It's certainly a relevant question and I'm not sure why it would be considered "trivially searchable".
AppointmentWhich8128@reddit (OP)
Lmao what a joke