Questions tagged [deleted-questions]
refers to all questions deleted from Stack Overflow. The tag "specific-question" should also be used when referencing a specific question that has been deleted.
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When users delete their opinion-based questions, what are the repercussions?
Now this "opinion-based-questions" experiment is running we have this annoying situation that users frequently post questions as opinion-based that clearly should have been regular questions....
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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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Flagging a (specific?) spam deleted question results in error "Unable to load popup - please try again"
I tried to flag this spam deleted question to ask for the poster to be deleted as well (as the account seems to have been created for the purpose of spamming only). Unfortunately, when I click "...
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Unable to edit my question that was deleted by the Roomba (i.e., the Community user)
I have this question that was automatically deleted, but when I try to edit it I'm not allowed to do so. Upon attempting to edit, I get a banner in the page that says "This post has been deleted -...
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Several good answers, the question has now been edited, can it be undeleted? [closed]
The following question has several high-quality (it seems to me) answers. Yet it was deleted after being closed. I have edited it now to make it, I hope, better as a question. The answers surely ...
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How can this question about language processing libraries, deleted for being insufficiently focused, be made more focused?
My question asking whether a specific NLP library for Java is capable of performing a specific language operation was closed for insufficient focus and then deleted. As the question has been deleted ...
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How can my DTrace question get undeleted after deletion by a moderator?
I had my question (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79611623/dtrace-equivalent-for-perf-record) deleted by a moderator.
The reason cited is -
We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for ...
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Comments on deleted questions [duplicate]
Yesterday I left a comment on this question. The asker later responded to my comment, but has now deleted the question.
When I log in to day, I see an alert in my inbox, but when I click there I can ...
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Why was my question closed? Reason is incorrect, I think
How to generate a random array from the values of another array, the sum of whose values are within a pre-determined range?
This question is seeking recommendations for software libraries, tutorials, ...
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Don't show deleted spam posts on the 'Recently viewed posts' section of the home page
When viewing the homepage, I can see a spam post under Recently viewed posts. Admittedly, it was recently viewed, but considering I don't have 10k, it's not very useful to include it (well, yes, using ...
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Staging ground question left in a half-deleted state
There was recently a run-of-the-mill AI generated / potential spam seed question in the Staging Ground, Mouse Polling Rate. It was deleted by Machavity, but it was somehow left in a strange half-...
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Comments on deleted Staging Ground posts appear undeleted to 10k+ users
When a post on the Staging Ground is deleted, the background coloring suggests that the comments underneath have not been deleted. This is unexpected and curious, but also, in the case of some recent ...
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Can my C++ question be undeleted & reopened?
Here is a link to my question.
There are a couple of other questions on the same topic as mine, but they don't answer my question. My question was an attempt to understand how to read a std::optional ...
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What exactly is wrong with this question?
There is a (now deleted) question How Leetcode is able to compile a program without 'main()' function? (screenshot for people below 10k rep). It was a newbie question in C++ tag asking "...
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Could users with <10k reputation be able to see the content of deleted SG questions that they've taken a review action on?
A long time ago, a change was made to allow users without the 10k tools the ability to see the content of questions/answers they've reviewed. From that post, the rationale was:
Displaying the post ...
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There's something rotten in the tag of regex, episode M + 1 of N: Unwarranted deletion of a question
This is about the, to me unwarranted, deletion of the following post: RegEx to selectively insert newlines (line breaks) works on regex101.com, but not in PowerShell (screenshot, courtesy of Anon ...
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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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Two accounts, one username, their deleted question & its bounty
I've observed what is described below on two separate occasions in the past couple of months:
User with 1 reputation posts a fairly complicated question
User with the same username but with more than ...
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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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Simple questions should not be automatically considered off-topic and deletion-worthy
I came across this question recently and was somewhat stunned by the level of negative reaction to it. It asks whether there is a way to determine version information programmatically for a particular ...
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Why delete a 'reasonable' (potentially fixable) question within 20 minutes of it being posted?
Three high-rep ('trusted') users decided to close and delete this question within about 20 minutes of it being asked. For those users without the required 10k reputation to see it, here are some ...
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May my question be undeleted?
Maybe a long shot, since I'm the author.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74833431/use-an-os-process-like-a-bash-pipe-send-it-stdin-and-get-its-stdout
This unresolved question was deleted due to a ...
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Do "deleted" questions ever get deleted?
In my profile, under questions, at the bottom of the page, there's a link to my "deleted questions." I feel that these are weighing me down in my question ban, and really want to get rid of ...
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Why was my question 75732423 deleted?
I asked a question, and it was closed.
It was "in review" for ten days and was closed today.
I edited the question and "Submit for review" it 10 days ago, and checked the "...
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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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