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Originally Posted by LittleFreak
The reason it seems like more posts are getting deleted now is possibly that deleted posts are visible now. A few days ago I wondered if deleting your own posts is some sort of a new "trend", just because I saw quiet a lot of them.
Apart from that, what is the difference between editing and deleting?
Of course, if only one part of your post is badly offtopic editing would be a better solution, but there is no reason to complain about deleting fully off-topic posts if you ask me.
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Read my post. The deleting of offtopic posts is new policy. Because we thought it would be fair to show deleted posts if we had this policy, we decided we should show deletion notices. Before this policy non-double-posts were barely ever deleted.
The difference between editing and deleting is that, with editing, the non-bad parts of a post are still visible. Deleting deletes an entire post, without removing the post text from the db itself, which is more suitable for posts that don't add to the topic. They just disappear.
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