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Sometimes when I ask a question, I try to provide some basics so that some people can get some help reading my question. Sometimes someone points to me that I have made a simple mistake, that's why I raised the question and soon I get some downvotes for my question. But I still think I gave some information worth reading to others (because the info I added in my question are what I looked for some time ago) in my original question. In this case, should I delete my question?

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This might depend on the specific Stack Exchange site you're on, but in general:

  • if you can improve your question so that it's useful for future readers, please do so and leave the question undeleted.
  • if you can't (so it's only useful for you, and you fixed your problem), it's better just to delete it.

Remember, the main goal of Stack Exchange is

... to help the most people we can.

And deleting your post (if it's only useful for you) helps in this by providing less distraction to future visitors.

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  • It's not necessarily better to delete it if there's already value in the question/answers.
    – Mast
    Aug 30, 2018 at 6:01
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    Value for future readers, yes. I know this can be sometimes hard to determine.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Aug 30, 2018 at 6:06

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