why do you people delete your posts?
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I've deleted posts because while I was busy writing up a summary, someone else posted the same news. I'd rather one post get seen than have two posts splitting votes and possibly getting lost. I don't care who gets 'credit' for posting as long the news is visible. If the faster poster used a different link, I might comment something like, 'more details here' if indeed there are more details worth noting.
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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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I generally only delete posts when I double post on accident. I'm happy to leave my stupidity on display because fuck it.
That's the spirit!
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I've only ever deleted one comment I've made. I was having a bad day, I was being overly pissy and inflammatory, and the comment didn't add anything to the conversation. If I had been the mod of that community, I would have deleted it and possibly banned myself. Since they didn't, I did. Once I came to my senses.
For the most part, though, I'm happy to leave my stupidity up for the future to see.
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Sometimes I’ll downvote myself if that seems to be the popular consensus. Who am I to disagree?
Sweet dreams
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Cowardice and lack of accountability (even in a pseudonymous forum, which is just ridiculous, lol), usually. The polite and mature thing to do is to post something afterwards like "my bad, I misunderstood/was having a bad day/can be very silly at times/etc.". On the other hand, I'm using Redact on Reddit to change everything into nonsense because fuck Reddit.
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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.
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I was wrong
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Connect went haywire and posted to a completely different thread than the one I actually posted in.
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DELETED
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Because replies sometimes force me to facepalm too much. My face hurts.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Agreed. Could be a relatively active post, excellent engagement and then:
doofus1: "Is this AI?" <it clearly isn't>
doofus2: "Now that you mention it....proceeds to launch 5 paragraphs as to how it's AI....blah, blah..." <it isn't AI>
experts1, 2, &3: "It's not AI"
doofuses 1& 2, whilst being downvoted into oblivion, push back ad nauseum despite admitting they could be wrong.
14 comments in the thread later, a mod removes some....
Original post succesully derailed.
OP deletes popular post, bc "Why bother?"
lather.rinse.repeat.
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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.
the post becomes a cesspool in the comments.
LPT - How to derail a post:
Query as to whether it's AI (even when it isn't)
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Because people treat their profile like an extension of their identity, and if they retrospectively decide that a post doesn't paint them in the right light, they just delete it.
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Agreed. Could be a relatively active post, excellent engagement and then:
doofus1: "Is this AI?" <it clearly isn't>
doofus2: "Now that you mention it....proceeds to launch 5 paragraphs as to how it's AI....blah, blah..." <it isn't AI>
experts1, 2, &3: "It's not AI"
doofuses 1& 2, whilst being downvoted into oblivion, push back ad nauseum despite admitting they could be wrong.
14 comments in the thread later, a mod removes some....
Original post succesully derailed.
OP deletes popular post, bc "Why bother?"
lather.rinse.repeat.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yup, not giving food to the "debate me" sea lion.
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I generally don't, even when I am dead wrong - it was my opinion and I was an idiot, no need to hide away from my past mistakes.
But I do delete my posts when I, for example, completely misunderstand what the OP is talking about, so I'm not adding anything to the conversation.
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I've deleted a few, usually if I accidentally doxx someone or literally post the wrong place (like I intended to reply to one person but somehow the message was posted as a response to another)
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I generally only delete posts when I double post on accident. I'm happy to leave my stupidity on display because fuck it.
Same. Had to delete a mistaken cross post but that’s about it here.
On other sites though, it’s because corpo media can suck it.
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The "because comments suck" reasoning is something I've never considered. It's surprising to me that people feel that level of investment or ownership over forum posts.
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Shame, naturally
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Because some of y’all are assholes
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Because I realize how stupid they are.
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I do after months or years because I don't write them for posterity. I'm careless and fuck shit up a lot. Let the past fade into memory, or be forgotten, either way. This is not my blog.
