Sometime I see people do the following and I do not know why.

1. Start a thread with its visibility set to "public". (post A)
2. Get a reply with its visibility set to "public". (post B)
3. Reply to that "public" reply with your reply's visibility set to "unlisted". (post C)

Is it to protect the privacy of post B's user? The topics are often technical, not personal, so that makes little sense to me.

Is it to reduce the number of posts in your public feed? Wouldn't your subscribers want to read the technical discussions in which you participate?

Why do they do that? If it is due to the default behaviour of the software they use, why was this behaviour chosen by the author of that software?

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