I’ve seen this happen a bunch of time now that people just ask a question and it’s deleted a day or so later. Do they delete the question themselves, or is that some automatic thing? If they do it themselves, why?

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Thanks for the great answers so far. Very insightful. Please keep them coming, I’m curious to more points of view.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Sometimes I do it for comments, and it’s just because I don’t really like what I wrote. I read it and it’s just banal, and I’m like, “you’re not moving the discourse forward at all.”

    What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit. They’re their posts, they have the right to do it, but I’m like, c’mon, Reddit isn’t suffering from it. They’re selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.

    I think that’s like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.