Timeline for Reopening good question closed by OP
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| Jan 14, 2017 at 4:14 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Scott, along those lines, it would be useful to have some mechanism to, in general, send a message to a user. For this particular issue, though, supposed the OP doesn't revisit the site for awhile. They wouldn't be aware that the question they deleted had been undeleted, and wouldn't see any comments or messages. Well, unless they perhaps got called into the boss's office to get fired for no obvious reason, or found their office plastered with "SU SuperTech#1" signs everywhere. Or they return to the site and discover that their deleted question had been sitting there undeleted for a month. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 3:52 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | @fixer1234 : (1) I wonder whether the author of a question (or an answer) gets notified when the post has been undeleted. (2) I agree with your concerns; I’m a big fan of anonymity and confidentiality myself. It’s a problem, though, that it’s impossible to comment on deleted posts, so there’s no easy way to ask an OP why he deleted his post. I can’t see any good reason for this restriction. Only ≥10K users and the OP can even see the post, so there’s no risk of hordes of newbies cluttering up deleted posts with comments. Maybe we should make a feature request to change that. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 22:21 | comment | added | Ramhound | @fixer1234 - I honestly don't care. I prevented the revenge voting by not making an easy connection between my SO account and my SU account. I still think the question were talking about should have been undeleted though. If the author wants information retracted or be disassociated from the question that should be done. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 22:19 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Ramhound, it sounds like there are broader issues of fairness and user expectations that might be worth exploring in a separate Meta question. Deleting with a 0 vote answer was within the existing provisions. I assume your not being able to delete your questions was due to their having upvoted answers, again within the site's provisions; actions there would adversely affect other users. But for a case like that, you should be able to at least disassociate from the question and have the lost rep returned; the equivalent to you of deletion, but the thread remains for the community. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 22:03 | comment | added | Ramhound | I agree, I am upset that a question, with an answer was unilaterally removed by it's author. Seperate topics, which I shouldn't have brought up, because they really are seperate. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 22:01 | comment | added | Ramhound | I think unilaterally removing a question with an answer (even with 0 votes) shouldn't have been done in the first place. If I have to get on hands and my knees and beg for questions to be deleted, which were all serial downvoted because users here at Superuser didn't like being told their software recomendations questions were not on topic, then a question with an 0 vote answer shouldn't be deleted. From the very minute I hid my Stackoverflow account profile, in my Superuser profile, I have not recieved a single downvote to those questions. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 21:58 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Ramhound, I agree there are many things that can/should be done. I don't think undeleting over the OP's objections or without their approval is one of them. "Entirely removing from the community" refers only to the original post. If there's value in it, someone else can post a new version so the community doesn't lose it. Win-win. Not removing your own questions that were serial downvoted, seems like a different issue. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 21:51 | comment | added | Ramhound | @fixer1234 - I am not sure I agree with that conclusion. There are many things that should be done, before we accept that the only outcome, is the question being entirely removed from the community. It also does match my experience in trying to get rid of my own serial downvoted questions removed over at Stackoverflow. Community moderators there flat out refused to remove questions I flagged because they were being serial downvoted. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 20:14 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Ramhound, the ability to undelete is so that it can be accomplished when the OP is in favor or it, not so that the community can run roughshod over the OP's objections. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 20:03 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 16:22 | comment | added | Ramhound | "isn't other people's place to undelete it" - I disagree. If the question contains information it shouldn't have then that information can be retracted. If the user no longer wants to be associated with the question that can also be done. Once submitted the question doesn't belong to just the user, it belongs to the community, hence the reason the community can delete and undelete the question. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | Ben N | Indeed, if there was potentially sensitive information or code, undeleting it would be undesirable. Here, though, the question was completely innocuous. I have left a comment on it to notify the owner of this discussion. | |
| Jan 11, 2017 at 5:48 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2017 at 5:32 | history | answered | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |