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Why doesn't plato appear as a character in his dialogues?

Just wondering why he writes as he is socrates, instead of writing as himself? or even writing about himself in third person? I know that he mentions himself very briefly but why not more? I have been searching for this answer for a long time and have yet to find a straightforward response.
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>I have been searching for this answer for a long time and have yet to find a straightforward response.

That is because there is no straightforward response to find. Plato did not write down anywhere his motives for not putting himself into his dialogues. We can speculate about why he did things, just like we can speculate about any author of fiction when it comes to why they did anything, but there is not one obvious right answer.