Question: I saw a user who asked this question [i wanna know more this Fibonacci's operating Principles](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66270493/i-wanna-know-more-this-fibonaccis-operating-principles#66270493) who then voted to close his own question.

What results from a person closing their own question rather than just deleting it? Are there some question/answer rep points possibly awarded on such question (Not a case here... but potentially...) Why would a person vote to close their own question?

Are the impacts on the close vote queue and re-open queue review negligible?

I wonder about that particular use case... Should it instead automatically trigger a delete of the question?

I think if a user wants to close its own question... It is equal to delete it. But I may miss some aspects too.

Answer: 
This post has an answer [When is it OK to delete your own question?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/281849/when-is-it-ok-to-delete-your-own-question) that has some good points about not deleting a question.

Rather than automatically trigger a delete instead offer that as an option should a person try to close their own question. That way a person gets to make the decision as to whether to just close the question or to actually delete it.

What would be interesting would be to allow a person who creates a question to also be able to close it themselves just as a person can also delete it by themselves. For instance if someone finds out their post is a duplicate, they could just go ahead and close as duplicate. [Why do you have the option to vote to close your own question? Why would you ever do that?](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345429/why-do-you-have-the-option-to-vote-to-close-your-own-question-why-would-you-eve)

If a question is closed, it can still be seen by anyone, anyone can edit it, and anyone can ask for it to be reopened.

Closing a question can discourage voting on the question, giving the person asking it breathing space to think and edit the question. At the same time people can give feedback through comments.

However Owner Hold has been proposed in the past as an alternative to deleting a question. See this discussion [Putting your own question on Owner-Hold](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284262/putting-your-own-question-on-owner-hold) with an answer that begins

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> There is already a feature for this, it is called delete. You can edit
> when a post is deleted, all comments, voting, and answers are locked,
> and it does not show up anywhere.
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Guiding users to delete content sounds like a bad idea.

I don't think there is serious misunderstanding of what "close" and "delete" mean even for new users and I'm pretty sure number of "self-close" vote is very small to deserve any additional work even if there is some value in it (I'm not interested in the exact numbers as I don't think it should be implemented even if there is enough close votes, but the feature request can be improved by actual usage numbers).

At least half of close reasons are not about "this is not suitable for SO ever" but either "need to be improved by OP" or "resolved in a way that answers should not be added to this post". Only "belongs to another SE site" and blatant recommendations requests deserve deletion (and many recommendation requests actually fine if reworded to follow rules).

Guiding users toward removal of the content imply that it is something that SO/SE actually encourages. This is not the case as it is generally preferable to improve content rather than remove.

And guiding new users toward deletion of the content may push them toward question ban, especially if that was for a question that was "resolved in a way unlikely to help future users" with an answer.

Overall I would prefer users to be guided toward close, improve and re-open rather than delete and re-ask.