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Accepted
Why are questions which are on hold, never deleted?
Does anyone go and check questions on hold and make a decision about them?
They are deleted, subject to a specified set of conditions.
There is a automated cleanup process for this. The script is ...
DavidPostillMod
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My "answer" was deleted, why?
It was deleted because it is either a comment or something you tried.
It was not a solution to your question so it should never have been posted as an answer. Answers that are seeking clarification ...
MokubaiMod
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My "answer" was deleted, why?
At first glance, your answer looks like it is saying
“Thank you, @<username>,”
and then showing the output of the other user’s code.
People who are accustomed to forums
believe that it’s ...
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Why are questions which are on hold, never deleted?
Questions that are still termed "on hold" (not "closed") are not automatically removed because we want to allow users time to revise their question to get it reopened. After five days, the status text ...
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5
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Accepted
Can I get notified when my comment is deleted
Only moderators can view deleted comments. I am fairly certain there is no way to know for sure that there are deleted comments on a post, other than of course remembering that one was there and ...
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5
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Accepted
Informative comments, should they deleted?
Comments are, preferentially, for teasing out information. Rather than being permanent fixtures of "this is some information" they are best used as "trial and error" or ...
MokubaiMod
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5
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Informative comments, should they deleted?
It seems at least here, that the opinion is that informative comments
ta should be deleted, and wonder why that was so?
Informative comments should be avoided because they can be deleted at any ...
- 43.6k
4
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Why not allowing people to delete their own question?
Questions that have answers are protected from the author deleting the question, in the hopes that someone else has the same question and the answer potentially helps.
Relative XKCD:
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3
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Please, delete my question regarding svchost.exe
In most cases we'd be disinclined to delete a question - and if memory serves, you can't delete your own question if there's an upvoted answer.
A couple of observations.
if a large part of an answer ...
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3
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Delete Accepted answer, where the consensus is that the answer is wrong
Well in general - the reasoning is that it could be useful for others (and as a wrong answer it isn't), and OP spent the effort creating an answer.
Considering the circumstances, (and that I was in a ...
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3
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Deleting a question that was unsuitable
You can delete your own questions, assuming certain criteria are met.
From our help page Why are questions deleted:
Users can delete their own questions if the question:
has zero answers
...
MokubaiMod
- 94.8k
3
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Can I get notified when my comment is deleted
The comment you deleted essentially was an attempt to extract an answer out of a off topic/closed question via comments. The deletion was by design.
Comments should be considered to be ephemeral - ...
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