@umimo
Don't know, does not sound like something that would matter.
and why would someone do that on publish page?
Because users, specifically speaking, are not literate lazy people, they don’t want to bother and fill out forms, they register through Google or Facebook, and when they already have to fill in the location when publishing, they can’t think of opening a drop-down list and even approximately finding their city. And when the automatic location selection on the post page resets all completed ad lines and the user is redirected to the main page, the user simply does not bother further and leaves your site.