r/learn_arabic • u/iium2000 Trusted Advisor • Sep 17 '24

General Please do not do that

Assalamualaikum everyone, I have a small request for those who want to post a question over this subreddit; please do not delete the post after you got your answer..

Some have donated long detailed answers and good knowledge, and sometimes over the small screen of a mobile phone.. It is disheartening to see the post being deleted and to be removed from circulation, the moment that the asker gets his/her answer..

and honestly, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth - metaphorically speaking that is..

If the post is offensive or the threads went very offensive in some way, then it may be a good idea to delete the post and with all the comments in it.. Otherwise, it makes me wary about answering future questions from the same person who does that..

Just a small ask.. and may y'all have a good day or night wherever you are..

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u/d_emo Sep 17 '24

Would be very funny to delete this

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u/Duvelr Sep 17 '24

even funnier to delete yours.

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u/Shoddy_Boat9980 Sep 21 '24

Not really, deleting a comment wouldn’t have as much effect as the post itself

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u/sshivaji Sep 17 '24

Why would people delete their post after getting responses?!

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u/Thatstealthygal Sep 17 '24

Sometimes people do so if they got some answers they didn't like, or there was argument in comments, or even if they revealed something too personal. But OP is right - as well as devaluing the work responders have put in, it means valuable information and discussion is lost.

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u/Playful_Dream2066 Sep 21 '24

People confuse the concept of privacy a little too much maybe and think their question is just for them. They don’t want to maybe be seen as embarrassing for such a simple question.

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u/sshivaji Sep 21 '24

In my opinion no language question is stupid. Keeping the question online allows more people to master Arabic!

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u/AllYouNeedIsApitxat Nov 14 '24

A few months ago, a teacher told me: this space is a laboratory for failure, because you learn more from mistakes than from success, since you apply your logic, and then you change, learning more deeply and consistently the root of the explanation. In the end, the laboratory should be life itself, although we tend to be too ashamed of failure, when the history of humanity has learned from failures.

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u/eArabiclearning Sep 17 '24

Sometimes i found answers in 10+ Years
I agree with you answers should be kept alive for other people to get it

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u/InternationalYellow9 Sep 22 '24

I've been tempted to delete some of my own posts where I make a very obvious error years into my Arabic learning journey but I won't because the goal should be to learn form one's mistakes.

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u/cappdilla Sep 24 '24

introduce a penalty; maybe kick the users who do this without any serious concerns or reason or without coordinating with the mods.

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u/iium2000 Trusted Advisor Sep 25 '24

It is a bit harsh, however I would simply remember the OP..