does the responsible thing and takes it down.

deleted this thread after my post here

obvious (or even remotely obvious) reason for doing so--like a duplicate post, a post in the wrong forum, clearly misunderstood premise on the part of the OP, or invalid information presented.... All of those would be understandable, but I, for one was giving those types of posts and posters the benefit of the doubt.

of why. Usually it's because it's a duplicate.

Especially if the thread contained misinformation, propaganda or was a duplicate thread, and the poster deleted it out of consideration for the DU community.

I wish it happened more often.

So, of course, I lose all that--even if someone else posts a similar thread.

sigh...

There are usually good reasons for when that happens. I'm not suggesting it is never because they do not like responses, though I am not aware of that ever taking place.