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10 votes

Is there an auto delete point for negative value questions?

The questions in, erm, question are spam. Flag them as such and they'll get eventually auto-nuked by the community bot (it a number of votes to reach the threshold).
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Why would a sane moderator delete an answer of a question without providing constructive fee...

The new answer (on the new question) was flagged as a duplicate of the old one. This is done automatically by the system and when it happens, at a glance it can look like a user is pepper-spraying the …
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12 votes

Why was my answer deleted so unfairly?

I'm trying to be honest and fair here. Don't see this as me piling on, rather look at it and understand how moderators (and the community here) do things and learn from it. There were several proble …
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2 votes

Could my answer be undeleted?

The OP is being picky and your answer doesn't appear to answer exactly what they're looking for, that is, a way of switching profile without changing terminal instance. They have accounted for (essent …
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What to do when your answer gets down voted?

You should take a down-vote as the need to give an answer some attention. Courteous down-voters will tell you what the problem is and (assuming they're right, they might not be) that'll let you know i …
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5 votes
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Why was my simple answer deleted?

Because it copied a whole swathe of text from another site that didn't make its content available through a permissive enough license. In short: because it's copyright infringement. Read the Subscrib …
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4 votes

Removed previously duplicate answer

The reason we occasionally delete answers on duplicate-closed questions is that the system will automatically redirect people from Google to the fully-answered question. This has the obvious benefit t …
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