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I regularly notice how some people simply delete their post because they don’t like the way people are answering to it. It’s fine they don’t like those answers, it’s not fair they are given the power to mute them.

I find that behavior annoying. Not because someone deletes their post. I mean, they’re free to do whatever they want, but because by doing so they also render the entire discussion unavailable.

Like if all the other participants were submitted to their whims.

Imho, a solution could be to let people delete their post but not the technical-something-whatever that made their post accessible to read and to answer. And so, no matter how shy or regretful the OP could ever be, people that have answered would not be dependent on their willingness to let them speak. And even if the OP was deleted other people would still be able to read the comments and maybe keep on discussing without te OP being involved.

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I’ll try and answer seriously, with some non-exclusive options, in no particular order:

• Feeling ashamed, mostly because they’re realizing they’re either wrong or sounding stupid.
• Not wanting controversial stuff related to them to be “saved” for others to find and use for scrutiny.
• Honest mistakes (wrong community, thread, etc.)
• The post becomes a cesspool in the comments.
• Other personal reasons (feeling threatened, wanting a clean inbox, question got answered and they don’t care about historic purposes, etc.)

These are just my guesses though, and I try and not delete anything personally. I’m aware that anything I put on the internet will be immortalized, and that the healthiest thing I can do is own both my mistakes and my opinions, even if I’m convinced of my stupidity or ignorance at a later time. I’m only a human after all, and doomed to talk before I think. Best I can do is to learn as much as possible from it, and hope that others can also learn from my actions.

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Cuz I said some stupid shit and wanted it gone before anyone noticed.

Unfortunately deletes don’t always federate so it doesn’t help

Shame induced by illiteracy

I deleted one once because I complained about someone by name, hoping someone else would have experience with them and could offer better advice.

I think it would have been relatively easy for them to find that post, which I didn’t want to risk given that they could cause me harm by denying their services. It wouldn’t have been hard to work out who I was given the context I provided.

I wish I could delete what I say in real life too tbh

To to prevent AI to use it

why?

that’s why

knowledge can be posted freely but NOT SHARED

any time someone on here corrects your grammar or usage, just remember they absolutely didn’t get picked for peer review for anything to Nature

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ill delete mine if:

1. it has any form of information that could potentially be used to personally identify me when I realize retroactively

2. i get embarrassed when I try to contribute to a community and get down voted to oblivion