Why can't you delete questions?

:)

93% of people find our site from a search engine, like Google. Or Yahoo, or AOL, or Microsoft, or Ask, etc. If we removed all the questions…well, you wouldn’t have found our site.

And, if it’s anonymous, then it’s not in your profile, and we highly, strongly discourage people from putting in personal info in their questions. Also, if we see personal info in questions, we remove it, so it’s as close to anonymous as possible (even before you mark it anonymous).

And as Steph pointed out, it lowers the value of the site, as we get 50K visitors per day, a lot of them have the same questions people have already asked, and they benefit from what’s here. Without those, the same questions would be asked, over & over…and it’d be less useful, overall.

Also, many other question / answer sites don’t allow you to delete your profile, while we do, if you no longer wish to use the service.

:) And, if you really want something deleted, feel free to let me know & I’ll help out. We’re here to try to make the world a better place ;) Not make people upset.

Though, and I hate to remind people of this, the Terms of Service (which you must agree to in order to use the site) say explicitly that you agree to let us use your question and or answer content, permanently, etc, etc.