Questions tagged [deleted-answers]
Deleted answers refers to all answers deleted from Stack Overflow. The tag "specific-answer" should also be used when referencing a specific answer that has been deleted.
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Question with answer got deleted by users. Doesn't that go against SO Policy?
I have this question which asks How would we go about reacting once 2 seconds of N videos has been preloaded?.
And Goldman had provided a really good answer, that I'm sure would be of interest to ...
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Should my answer, deleted for (suspected) plagiarism, be undeleted after a full rewrite?
One of my answers, on a bountied question, was deleted by a moderator for plagiarism. I understand the concern. Since then, I’ve rewritten the answer in my own words and added proper references.
I ...
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Can I modify an AI-generated answer and get it undeleted? [duplicate]
I knew the solution of question I used AI to format it well so that the one am answering should have more clear solutions, I answered a question using an AI-generated response, but the answer was ...
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A deleted answer written in Spanish fixed my issue. How do I credit it?
I recently asked the question How do I get the HTTP status code from UrlFetchApp.fetch() when it throws an error?. Someone responded with an answer written in Spanish, which was quickly deleted. I ...
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Deleted answers due to accused being AI generated
I’ve been a part of the Stack Overflow community for the past 7 months and have answered at least 60 questions. I’ve made the account as I’m broadening my knowledge and I want to share my contribution ...
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A comment being that large that it's given as an answer, is not a reason for deleting that answer
My experience taught me that in case of complex, time-consuming algorithms, one should try to find obvious solutions first, and only when those are not found, launch the algorithm.
I thought of ...
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How can I find why this answer of mine was deleted?
Just 2 days ago my answer got deleted by one of the moderators. I remember that previously the reason for the cleanup was stated at the bottom of the post.
I haven't got any objection, I only want to ...
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How can I find why a post was deleted?
I was reading the React Native questions to help and answer, then I saw an answer was deleted, and I couldn't find any reason for its deletion!
Wouldn't it be better if deletions required a mandatory ...
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trying to figure out what "last activity" actually was [duplicate]
This question is currently tagged with "L. Tyrone 4,298 modified 15 mins ago", but when I click through to the question I can't see any activity attributed to that user (edits, comments, ...
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My answer was deleted (by '3 users vote' ) and isn't off topic
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: What is the relationship between iostream and namespace std?
My answer was deleted (by '3 users vote' ) and isn't off-topic nor match criteria, ...
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Appealing a deleted answer on a "git prune" question [closed]
I believe a moderator deleted my answer without reading it thoroughly.
Direct link to the now deleted answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/77964098/1426539
Since 2011, this topic received a lot of ...
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Should we allow accepted answers to be deleted?
Accepted answers aren't the community's decision: it's an option by the OP. If the answer breaks the website rules, it makes sense to be deleted, but why can't the OP see the accepted answer anymore?
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Useful bountied answer removed
I awarded a bounty on an answer to this question seleniumbase (undetected Chrome driver): how to set request header? but the relevant answer has disappeared, presumably deleted for some unknown reason....
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Can this information about the change of regex handling in HTML be preserved and how?
A question I posted an answer to was deleted: Why does a regex using an unescaped dash - character not seem to work in a pattern attribute in HTML but it works when testing on regex101? (Screenshot of ...
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Other undelete votes are not properly counted/displayed when a post owner self-undeletes a post
Yesterday I cast an undelete vote on an answer. This undelete vote is shown in the timeline, although it is unattributed so normal users can't tell whether it was an undelete vote by the post owner or ...
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Low-rep users should not see usernames of people who voted for deletion of their question or answer in the banner
In this feature request I would like to propose that the usernames of delete-voters get hidden from low-rep users in the deletion banner, similarly to how the usernames of close-voters already are not ...
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Is there any reason to keep a self answered question about an issue with beta software now resolved in the release version? [duplicate]
While working on some code using some new APIs in a beta release of Xcode 15 and iOS 17, I came across a bug and an ugly workaround. So I posted a question and a self-answer based on the issue and my ...
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Why is this answer that does not even have a link spam or offensive?
I got a 'STOP! Look and listen.' from clicking Looks OK here. For whatever reason the answer is considered spam and was deleted as such. Sometimes the answers have a link to an undisclosed affiliated ...
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Lost reputation from deleted bountied answers doesn't automatically get counted
I recently cast the last delete-vote required to delete a user's GPT-generated answer.
The answer had a bounty of 500 reputation.
The user's reputation counters still show their rep as if they were ...
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XPath to select all elements: Old moderator-deleted answer is the best answer
Question: XPath to select all elements with a specified name
I got here from a Google search with the same exact question. I found the top-voted answer with a try this, see if it works. There isn't ...
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Is there a way to recover my answer to another users deleted question?
A few times I have experienced that I spent time writing an answer to a question only to find that the question was deleted. This seems to cause my answer to simply disappear from the universe.
Is ...
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How to deal with a "correct", but deleted answer because of ChatGPT
Yesterday I was having a look at the newest question tagged with twig and came upon this question, which already had a, now-deleted, decent answer (screenshot).
At that time I felt the answer did a ...
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Not real sure why this answer was deleted
Not real sure why this answer was deleted. It appears to at least attempt to answer the question. In fact, the answer is of higher quality than the question itself.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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Why was my answer deleted due to a minor error?
I wrote this answer with a solution to my own question. But after a while it was deleted by a moderator. The reason was that there was a mistake in my answer which could've been easily corrected.
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Why was my answer deleted for plagiarism, despite mentioning the source?
My answer was deleted by a mod for plagiarism. Why? It mentioned the source clearly ("code from gns-ank").
Answer:
Since Matplotlib isn't able to use the metric system natively, if you want ...
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