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What kind of jerk has his question answered by the Stackoverflow community, then insist it be pulled so others don't benefit?
by ThomW 13y ago
What kind of jerk has his question answered by the Stackoverflow community, then insist it be pulled so others don't benefit?
- pothibo 13y agoRevision #8 is insane... I don't understand what goes through his head
- praptak 13y agoThe user clearly believes it is his duty to prevent Google from unfairly benefitting from the existence of the question.
- gorrillamcd 13y agoWhat he fails to realize is that the site that just helped him depends on Google for a large portion of their traffic (and thus, revenue).
- denzil_correa 13y agoI did some analysis and I found out that roughly 1/8 of the delete questions on Stackoverflow are deleted by the author of the question.
- landr0id 13y agoDo you know the context of those though? I delete my questions from time-to-time because they're very specific to my setup or they end up being something really basic like a missing semicolon or a typo somewhere.
- denzil_correa 13y agoIt would be difficult to measure the context. I discovered that most users(not all) who delete are those who fear -ve votes which in turn effects reputation points i.e. there'd be a higher probability of an author deleting a question if the question has attracted some -ve votes.