Is there anyway that you can make private previous questions that you had asked (when clicking on your public profile)?

Is there anyway that you can make private previous questions that you had asked (when clicking on your public profile)?
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Nope. You can flag them and kindly ask a mod to delete them, but there’s no real way of deleting or hiding your previously asked questions.
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