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?

*edit*

Thanks for the great answers so far. Very insightful. Please keep them coming, I’m curious to more points of view.

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve seen people do this on Lemmy, one person even had a stalker that would go server to server to reply angrily to their posts because he felt “wronged” somehow.

    those need to be reported and banned, their replies mass deleted.

    Plus, nobody is reading this stuff after a month anyway,

    Because we don’t have a proper (or any) system for subscribing to threads. but if I have saved a link for myself for future reference, it’ll be gone!

    I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if people start running instances that disobey deletions