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.

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Perhaps its something embarassing or potentially very political which they don’t want to remain on the internet forever.

    I guess we can add a rule stating that “By participating in this community, you agree to give permission that all your posts/comments can be archived” like under Creative Commons rules. And have a bot automatically archive it.

    But then again, there’s an argument that this violates privacy.