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Firmly agree. If I notice a trend on posts being deleted after posting, I just block the user so I don't see the new posts. Nothing is more annoying then putting a bunch of effort responding to someones question, especially tech related, just for them to nuke the post later on so it was all for nothing.
Thankfully though, it's few and far between on the communities that I usually look at, so I have not noticed it a whole lot.
just a quick question, any reason on why they do it...? I find it counterintuitive
as others have said, generally a privacy issue type deal. Sometimes regarding data being collected then sold.
I don't agree with the mentality tbh, if you were concerned about that just don't post. Nothing is stopping the data collectors from collecting it anyway(I'm sure they already have their own instance set to auto sub and ignore deletion requests), the only people who are effected by it are the users who wanted to see the post, and the people who put effort into responding.
Sometimes it's because they're getting answers they don't like.
Debate boards here just wouldn't work out even with equivalent population. The OPs regularly delete their posts out of embarrassment. Religious debaters especially.
What a waste it'd be to put the effort into a debate only for the entire thread to get nuked out of existence because the OP can't handle the responses. It's annoying enough to just lose the OP arguments on reddit when they self delete. Here, everything is just gone.
I deleted a post because it was the dumbest shit ever written by humanity. I was drunk at the time...
You are my spirit animal.
So? Leave it up for the humor.
I think it's trying to minimize their digital footprint/reduce the amount of LLMs that will ingest their post.
That’s surely one reason. Another would be collecting data to create profiles to make advertising and political manipulation even more effective.
Learning from reddit and social media in general, your posts may become free material for someone's LLM to make money of off, or a feed to profile you and do who knows what with that information. That may be one of the reasons.
I get the profiling concern, but if someone's that worried about a post being linked to them, they should use a throwaway anyway. I'm sure that someone out there is archiving everything posted anyway, and if they don't, it'll be tied to them there.