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.
Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.
Besides which, I find the expectation that people should create an account and use that in perpetuity very frustrating.
I have a bunch of accounts and change according to my mood. Nothing nefarious or antisocial, I just don’t want a big silo of comments. My accounts are not an extension of my identity.
I didn’t say I had a problem with any of that. But spinning up a burner, posting, and deleting everything afterward takes other people’s conversations with it (and those don’t currently come up in search results because the post is deleted). Granted that’s a platform limitation, but it is what it is. Posting from various alts but leaving things intact…go for it.
That’s part of my complaint against the ones doing that “hit it and quit it” bullshit; it makes people wary of interacting with new accounts.