Please report those, we will remove them. If we removed your comment for being rude and not theirs, then we did not read their rude comment calling the question stupid, and that's our bad.

Also, my DM's are always open if you disagree with a removal, anyone who has spoken with me before will vouch that I'm fairly reasonable as long as things don't break rules (such as gray areas).

Edit: could you link the comment you're talking about? The only thing I could find is this, which doesn't appear to be what you're talking about, but the response you gave to them was rude

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.

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...

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

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

https://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.

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.

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

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.

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...)

I find this question VERY stupid, and I’m sure I’m NOT the only one.