Deleting Posts
Hello everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the new(ish) sub.
We've had a few instances of people posting questions, receiving advice, then deleting the posts immediately afterwards.
As a group of mods, we want to discourage this. The purpose of the sub is to help all LiPs by providing help and assistance with specific questions. That means that it's not just the author of a post that benefits, but also anyone who reads the post and the comments - whether they read them contemporaneously or in the future. We know that people search the sub for help - that was why we introduced post flairs, on feedback from users.
We also understand that posters want to keep themselves anonymous, and we suspect that the reason for deletion is to try to maintain that anonymity. We recognise that there will be cases where deletion is necessary for that reason.
So we are not blanket banning post deletion, but we are strongly discouraging it. Please think about what you post, make sure that you are happy for it to be in the public domain, and only delete if absolutely necessary.
Serial posting-then-deleting may result in a suspension or a ban.