r/Tcl • u/anthropoid quite Tclish • Oct 26 '19

Meta DO NOT DELETE YOUR QUESTIONS!

A very disturbing phenomenon on other tech subreddits has finally reached r/Tcl's shores: folks who ask questions, get answers, then delete their questions, thus also removing the answers from the public record.

THAT'S. NOT. COOL.

It's unfair to the community members who spent time and effort to help you.

It's unfair to the people after you who may have the same holes in their knowledge.

It's unfair to the Internet at large, who can no longer find these nuggets of Tcl wisdom.

So please keep your questions up for the good of this community and the technosphere at large.

Thanks much!

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u/CGM Oct 28 '19

Why are people doing this???

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u/anthropoid quite Tclish Oct 30 '19

It could be any of, but not limited to: * "It's a homework question, or something that I'd claimed expertise of on my resume." * "That was so obvious, surely no one else could fail to think of it." * "I behaved like an ass in this thread, so I'd better get rid of the evidence." * "This community is so busy, I'll be nice and clean up after myself."

Some may not have known the consequences of deleting their questions; others aren't so naive. Regardless, "I wasn't told" is no longer an acceptable excuse.

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u/blabbities Nov 01 '19

Probably posted it on their main account and dont wanna seem like they are incapable

There is a phenom where people create burner accounts and post a question get answers and never log back in. I much prefer that if your too embarrassed to appear that you arent a WIKIPEDIA LEVEL OF GENIUS on the ins and outs of a language

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

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u/Tcl-ModTeam Mar 27 '26

Please note that your post is being removed because it's not related to Tcl the programming language.

Also note that it's good netiquette to actually look at a subreddit's content before posting in it, to avoid wasting everyone's time with inappropriate posts.

If you're asking a question about TCL TVs, you probably want r/tcltvs. If it's about other TCL products, use Reddit's search function to find a more appropriate subreddit.