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

I generally only delete posts when I double post on accident. I’m happy to leave my stupidity on display because fuck it.

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

created by deleter

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

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

To to prevent AI to use it

I tend not to, but only because I don’t post a lot.

But I’ll echo some of the answers here and say that if I would delete my post it’d be because:

• it was a duplicate
• it was posted on the wrong community
• it was not the “right kind of post” for the community
• it offers nothing of value

And fears that my post will be one of those listed above keeps me from posting.

As for comments, I also tend not to delete, but might if:

• it was a duplicate
• it was posted on the wrong thread
• it was not the “right kind of comment” for the post
• it offers nothing of value (but I tend to let this be anyways)

And again, fears that my comment will be one of those listed keeps me from commenting.

Some bot accounts delete routinely so their behavior cannot be studied as easily.

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.

I’ve always read deleted by creator as

God vaporized them for their terrible comment.

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)

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.

Because replies sometimes force me to facepalm too much. My face hurts.

why?

that’s why

Because I realize how stupid they are.