"Should I delete my old low-performing posts?"

"Should I delete my old low-performing posts?"

Q: "Someone told me to delete posts that flopped because they drag down my profile. Should I clean house?"

Short answer: Usually no — "delete your flops" is a myth built on a misunderstanding. The algorithm doesn't average your posts and punish you for weak ones; each post is largely judged on its own. Deleting mostly erases the slow-burn posts that still pick up the odd new reader or share over time.

The bigger cost is to you: deleting trains you to fear failure instead of learning from it. Those "flops" are your clearest data on what doesn't land.

A profile with a real history reads as a real person, not a curated showroom.

Try this today: Leave the old posts. Instead of deleting one, study why it underperformed and write a better version of the same idea.