I noticed many of the new localisation / programming threads have this or a similar warning.
I struggling with the logic behind it.
When I want to do something I will often start by looking at what others have done in particular
- What worked
- What didn’t work
- How hard others find the task
- The expertise of others who have been successful or unsuccessful compared to myself.
In particular I try to assess the difficulty of the task before I start. If other people ask questions I don’t think are hard yet still succeed then I will have a go. Conversely if people with much more ability than me are failing to get it working then I’m much less likely to try.
I can see some thread can get very long, making the information less accessibly and sometimes less relevant. I normally deal with that by looking at the first and last page of a thread first.
For something which has been around for awhile history is useful. Such as
- Who has worked on this recently
- Has my “new” idea actually already been tried and found to have other problems.
In summary, I don’t think deleting posts is generally a good idea.