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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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.

Usually it’s just that upon reflection, I didn’t look as hot as I thought i did.

Shame induced by illiteracy

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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.

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

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.

Very rarely anymore. Mostly only if I type it out and post before I realize it was stupid or completely wrong or if I mistook something, especially if it was obvious.

Anxiety

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To to prevent AI to use it