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7
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Help us clean up Super User
Some examples of highly popular questions that
are there for "historical reasons"
don't really fit anymore
are outdated
I'll let others debate. Here we go:
Good website for wallpapers
Windows 7 …
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Was the canonical "which software to install on a new Windows box" question deleted?
You linked to the wrong question. It should have been this one: What are some "must have" Windows programs?, with 321 answers. But, yes, it was deleted.
How can you view it? For example, try the Wayb …
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Why was my self-answer/post deleted?
Just a few thoughts.
I don't think it's necessary to delete the now newly posted answer again. We probably have plenty of other more serious issues to worry about. The flag was valid, maybe the user …
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Why was this question deleted, and is it worth re-visiting the topic?
I mean, you voted to close it. This goes hand in hand with acknowledging that the question is not a good fit – and at some point it might just be deleted. That's why it's never a good idea to answer a …
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My question was deleted but it isn't a duplicate
Questions are auto-deleted when they're closed and negatively scored. I undeleted it for now, but it should be your duty to edit it and point out why it's not a duplicate of the other question, and wh …
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Highly strange deletion
The question you asked is here. It was automatically deleted because it fell under the criteria explained in this Meta Stack Overflow post.
Basically, it didn't get enough votes or views.
I undelete …
7
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Why delete a perfectly useful old question on the site?
close it sure to prevent more and more unnecessary answers being added
This is a good sign the question is open ended and simply asking for polling. We explicitly discourage these questions, for …
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Styling deleted questions in post lists for awarded badges
Here's what occurred to me: In the spirit of forbidding 20k users to even search for just the number of deleted posts, I think it's funny that you can still get a list of deleted posts by looking at b …