Deleting Posts

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It is very rude to delete something that someone else wrote. When you delete a post, you are not just taking away your own writings; you are destroying the comments that other people took the time and effort to write. You are also depriving the rest of the community the opportunity to read those other people's contributions. If people continually delete posts, members of the community are going to stop commenting because it will be a waste of their time.

If you do not want your post to be available anymore, edit it and remove your writing. Leave everyone else's comments alone. (Although to be polite, it would probably be a good idea to leave a small summary of what the post was about.) If you do not want to read the comments anymore, you can ask the community to end the discussion or start another thread. You can also simply stop reading the comments.

If you want everyone to agree with you or if you can't handle criticism, maybe you shouldn't post in the first place. Some people are very fragile and can't handle less than glowing responses. I'm not going to sugar-coat things for them though and I don't deserve to have my words deleted because someone got upset. If you have to put your opinion out there but you don't want people to judge it, either disallow comments to the post or ask people not to comment.

In conclusion, deleting posts = bad. Stop doing it.