Questions tagged [deleted-posts]
For questions about questions or answers that are deleted.
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Indicate how many questions or answers have been deleted, to reduce the need to click the hyperlink if that count is 0
I frequently select my account's “Deleted Questions” and “Deleted Answers” hyperlinks to ascertain whether any of them have been deleted, solely to be informed that none have been:
I see no reason to ...
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How can these posts have been deleted long before they were created?
Today I watched an answer (posted as part of the ongoing spam wave on Super User) being deleted the same second it was posted, because somebody cast the final spam flag on the question. I was curious ...
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Are spam and rude flags validated on posts that are self-deleted by the post author?
My understanding is that when a post gets deleted, any Spam, Rude, or Abusive flags on it are automatically applied. Is this supposed to be the case for posts that are self-deleted by the author?
What ...
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How did I, having never been a moderator, single-handedly delete someone else's question?
According to the post history of this question, I single-handedly deleted it 2 months ago.
Except...I'm not a mod, so it should take at least 3 votes (for this question it would actually be 4) to ...
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How can I search my deleted posts on Stack Exchange Data Explorer?
I want to use Stack Exchange Data Explorer to find questions I wrote that have been deleted by the community user. However, I get no records when I search PostWithDeleted for posts with my OwnerUserId ...
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Pending edits suggestions vanish without a trace if the post is deleted by a moderator, bug or rationale?
Apparently, according to a moderator, if a post has a pending suggested edit, and then the post gets deleted by a diamond moderator, the suggestion is gone. Not rejected/canceled, not stays pending (...
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Getting "Comments on locked questions not eligible for voting" when deleting comment [duplicate]
If I click delete and then OK on a comment I made on a now deleted question, I get a strange message not related to the action I try to perform.
The usecase is this: I suggested a poster to visit help ...
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Allow the user to view a deleted post if it has a pending flag [duplicate]
Currently, if you have a pending flag on a deleted post and you are <10k, you can't retract it anymore (at least not via UI), so it's basically stuck until someone reviews it.
This happens mainly ...
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Answer that was deleted by a moderator was undeleted by normal users; why was it allowed and can it be fixed?
Since 2011, normal users have been prevented from voting to undelete posts that were deleted by moderators.
However, today, this answer was undeleted by votes from normal users after having been ...
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Let answerers keep their rep for deleted questions that they had invested time and effort in
In the last month or so, an abnormally and extremely large number of my answers got deleted. There was no reason for deletion, it happened just because the question(s) with which my answer(s) were ...
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Flagging deleted post or clicking on inbox item fails and brings up an error 500 on browser console
I mistakenly told a new user that their post was not supposed to be here. I messed up. The user self deleted, which while in their credit, is because I made a mistake. This isn't fair
I'd like to make ...
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Why is a user's reputation re-calculated when one of their posts is deleted?
When a user's question or answer gets deleted, their reputation gets re-calculated.
Like if my answer gets an upvote, and then gets deleted, I lose my ten rep that I gained from the upvote. I guess I ...
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Are Mods on all sites aware of and able to handle the mass defacing/deletion attempts by users unhappy with the OpenAI announcement?
Phrasing it in the form of a question, since I really don't know the answer, but there's a pretty big issue going on right now with users (at least 20 so far that I've seen) defacing and/or deleting ...
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How do I remove my contributions from Stack Exchange, in the event of a license violation?
Stack Exchange is now partnering with OpenAI. While the company has received a commitment from OpenAI that attribution will be maintained, and the company has not relicensed our contributions (as of ...
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Being able to easily see how many deleted versus non-deleted posts I acted on
I am often curious how many total questions I have closed/reopened/edited/etc regardless which ones were later deleted. You can view these statistics on your profile, and selecting the desired tab, to ...
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