I’ve deleted a ton of posts from my blog, and if you run a blog you can too! I’ve deleted at least 50 posts in the years I’ve been running this blog.
I delete posts for reasons like:
I disagree with the post on the object-level
subcategory: I also feel embarrassed about the post
subcategory: wild statements with wtf evidence
I disagree with the aesthetic that generated and pervades the post, even if the actual post seems otherwise ok
I find the post to be unsurprising
I find the post to be incoherent
I find the post's topic to be overly specific, and I believe there's a more general concept that's more important to understand/ naturally derives the more specific notion
I realize that my motivations for having the post were not what I want to perpetuate
update: here’s the main reason (it took me a long time to articulate!)
But I keep writing anyway:)