Questions tagged [deleted-questions]
This tag refers to all questions deleted from Stack Exchange sites. The tag 'specific-question' should also be used when referencing a specific question that has been deleted.
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Please do not delete closed questions with many views and many upvotes
Recently closed questions appear in the delete queue even though they had many upvotes and many views too.
Some examples:
What media (music and video) players are there? 52 upvotes 21k views 21 fav ...
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Don't edit spam answers, just flag them
We've been hit by way more spam than normal, just thought I'd point out these discussions on meta that might be useful to folks:
What can we do about the increasing amount of spam on Ask Ubuntu?
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Hey 10kers... you also have the delete votes
Well, the users with 10,000 reputation or more has access to the moderation tools (commonly referred as 10k-tools) which give more insight over the site itself. There's also the infamous flag queue ...
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How do I delete/abandon my question when it has answers?
It's a story you hear all too often. I asked a question. I got some answers. They showed effort so I voted them up. I found some time to actually try them out. Then... I changed my mind and did ...
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Serial downvote: how to make it stop? Tired of having my questions deleted
For the second time on askubuntu.com, I got serial downvoted.
The user who downvotes targets questions with no upvote and no answer so that after the downvote the question will automatically deleted....
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Only 30 days and -1 to remove a question?
This was just brought to my attention by this question.
From meta.se a question can be removed
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is ...
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Should spam-only accounts always be deleted?
Should accounts that have posted spam and don't appear to have contributed any non-spam content to the site always be deleted?
My understanding--from limited observation and this may be wrong!--is ...
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Question deleted as abandoned although I didn't abandon it
I asked this question
a while ago. It didn't receive any helpful attention, not even a comment asking for output of some command or something, or suggesting what I could look at. Since I still have ...
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Can we delete/migrate 425730 question that is about Mint?
Ok, is a good information, but it is off topic. The problem is that with the amount of votes that both Question and Answer have, we would need 4-5 10kers to delete it, but sadly we don't have that ...
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