I find viewing everyone else's deleted answers kind of distracting, and sometimes it's hard to not pass judgement when viewing some of them. Any chance of getting an option to be able to just not load them?
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When Stack Exchange site users reach  (or  for beta sites) they can view deleted posts. This can be very useful but deleted answers stay in their default ordering unless sorted by votes, so viewing a question with a lot of deleted answers can be cumbersome if you only want to see non-deleted posts.  The  at  is a particularly good example:    Can we have an option to not show deleted answers?    This is not a dupe of  because, as :     That was posted 6 years ago and the resolution was to just simply sort deleted posts to the end. This is asking for the ability to toggle viewing them at all. It'd at least be nice to revisit the issue, 6 years later
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I ask partially in relation to , but also for my own use;  My question is, if I leave a comment on a question or answer that is subsequently deleted, does the (non-10k) poster get a notification, if they arrive on the site after the content has already been deleted? And if so, can they then view the content?  I often leave what I hope are helpful comments when I flag content for deletion, especially for borderline spam and for non-answers. Very often, the user won't return to the site before the content is deleted, though.  So, is this practice at all helpful to the OP?
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I've seen .  Voting to undelete will not work because it was deleted by a moderator, but I managed to vote for reopening for some reason.  I doubt this is intentional, perhaps not as important, but still.
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I just deleted an answer I had left to a question because it had been proven to be wrong.  It seems that this would be the proper thing to do, since the purpose of the site is to provide correct answers - misleading information is the last thing we all want.  But what if the answer is providing important information about approaches that have been tried and rejected?  What if it's an obvious but wrong choice, and others are likely to leave the same answer if they don't see yours?  What if there are later responses that refer to yours, and you're removing the context?  As a compromise I waited a day before removing my post.  How would you have done it?
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As the title says. There's a history of all our queries and it would be good to be able to delete the lousy queries and keep the useful ones.   Is there a way to do this?
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I just answered , then deleted the answer because I realized what I said had already been covered. After deleting, I editing in a note saying why I deleted it, but that edit bumped the question on the home page.  I assume that the question will get bumped if I undelete the answer (which is proper behaviour), but I think in the case where someone edits a deleted answer, there's no point bumping the question for content that most people aren't going to see (and since the answer is deleted, shouldn't be seen anyway).  EDIT: A nifty way to abuse the system (10k+ only!).
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Well, I already searched meta as well as cleared my browser cache.  I realize this may be a SO cache problem, but it still seems kind of strange to me.    The deleted question is (assuming it still exists).  Shouldn't deleted questions only be visible to 10k users?  I'm only at 2k.
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I have some questions with answers, but none of the answers are acceptable (just wrong).  I'm sure there are a lot more people with the same problem.  Can you add a button to filter questions with answers but no accepted answer?  This way, people will see those questions and maybe try to offer a new perspective.
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While this is an old problem, it's one that will only increase with time.  As Stack Exchange sites gain in popularity, more and more users are coming to the sites in search of answers to their specific problems.  Unfortunately, not all of them understand the basic operating principals behind Stack Exchange, and ask questions, or start discussions as separate answers.  Deleting these answers is fine, but more often (I would argue almost always) than not, a new user doesn't understand why.  Granted, comments are a way of doing this, but there are drawbacks to comments:   They require extra, replicated effort on the part of the moderator for something that they do repetitively The message will be inconsistent; messages like this would be consistent, cite the relevant resources that guide the user in the right direction The larger size would have a higher chance of grabbing the user's attention, as well as put more weight behind the action (as it's officially attached to the answer in a consistent manner). The banner will serve as an example of what not to do to other users who can see the deleted post.   Additionally, there are tools that can help with auto-commenting on posts, but these have their drawbacks as well:   Not all moderators use these tools The messages that are delivered by the tools are ultimately generated initially by the moderators, so the message will not be consistent These tools are not always available on other devices (e.g., mobile platforms)   It would be helpful to the user if they had a reason indicating why the answer was deleted.  Something along the lines of:    In order to accomplish this, I propose an additional (not a replacement) button in the moderation tools labeled "delete with reason".  Mods would still be able to delete answers outright, they just have the option now of stating why in an easy manner which will allows for more time to moderate harder.  Placement is not important (screen real estate is valuable, yes), but I envision it looking something like this in the moderator tools:    When clicking "delete with reason", a dialog, much like the "close" dialog will appear with options:    Initial options for the reasons could be:   Asking a new question Starting discussion   A mechanism like this has the potential for other benefits as well:   Users with an answer deleted with a reason might actually be directed to perform the right action now, and in the future (creating better site denizens) Users who wish to contest the deletion of an answer on meta can cite that specific reason, which mods can specifically address (which actually might reduce noise on meta about "why was my answer deleted?") Can reduce flags on answers asking "why was this deleted?" (admitted, I've not personally experienced this to be a pervading problem on Stack Overflow, but this might be the case for other mods on other Stack Exchange sites) Other Stack Exchange sites which don't have that many users will give a better experience to their users when their first action isn't ideal for a Stack Exchange site; this will enhance the chance that the site will retain the user and get good contributions from them (as per Farseeker's comments: , ).   Additionally, if this works well for the moderator tools, I imagine that it would not be such a leap to eventually have this graduated to users with the rep to cast delete votes, thus allowing non-mods to deliver a more clear message to new users about how to best participate on a Stack Exchange site.
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I have read lot of questions related to deleted questions or answers to be available for users to see in their profiles, but my question is, does excess deletion of our own questions and answers attract penalty from the owners/moderators of SO?  Sometimes what happens is, when we see a question, we don't understand it properly but jump into them to answer to get early upvotes and later (when we get downvoted) we realize our mistake and would want to delete our own answers. The reason could be any of the following:   The answer is just not reasonable enough for the question asked. To save your reputation points and avoid further downvotes. Your answer has 0 upvotes and a better answer is already available for the question. The question gets edited and your answer is no longer valid. New people would not know that the question has been edited and they start downvoting your answer since it's no longer relevant.   In doing this we might go to extreme cases, maybe in the range of deleting hundreds of our answers. So is there an upper limit for the number of answers we can delete in order to avoid penalty (if there is any such penalty for deletion)?
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I think you should be notified if anything of yours is deleted or even flagged, preferably with some explanation (even if it's a simple categorisation like #rude, #irrelevant, #incorrect) and who did it.  Recently, a couple of comments of mine vanished without warning or evidence afterwards. I'm fine with deletion, but I think it should be used sparingly and be based on democratic decisions. What's the harm of letting a comment simply sit with no up-votes or responses rather than outright removal? Or allow downvoting and then negatively voted comments are hidden by default?  I get the impression that anything I post could be deleted. Very few people want to be unpopular or do the wrong thing. It takes time to understand what something is about and how best to use it (this site). Whether or not what I posted deserved to be deleted is irrelevant because I got no feedback. No-one can learn without feedback. The number of frivolous comments with many upvotes I've seen shows how inconsistently the rules are applied. A community that gives too much power to highly rated users won't grow but turn stagnant.  Sorry if this was rude, inappropriate or pathetic. I'm aware that similar discussions have occurred. In any case, I'll continue to use the site and move on...
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While attempting to delete a question which was answered by myself, and with no other answers, I got the following warning:     Delete this answered question?      We do not recommend deleting questions with answers because doing so   deprives future readers of this knowledge.      Repeated deletion of answered questions can result in your account   being blocked from asking. Are you sure you wish to delete?   I understand that deleting your question when someone else has answered it is effectively nullifying the effort that person put into that answer, which is bad. But is it bad if the only answer that's deleted along with your question is your own?
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There is some sort of delay for deletion of your own closed questions (2 days, I think) for non-mods. Now, when you try deleting a closed question on the desktop site, it nicely tells you "please wait xyz to allow for possible reopening" (in a box similar to the "please consider adding a comment explaining why you downvoted" thingy).  On mobile, it just reloads the page—there is no indicator that deletion is not allowed.  Either completely disable the delete button on mobile for closed questions, or give it a popup as well. Not letting the user know what's wrong is confusing.
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I know that moderator access tool (10k) is required in order to view deleted posts. I am talking about showing deleted comments on users' own posts.   For example,   has  comment which seems for another user (not for me) but I think there should be some comment by another user (which is deleted) and this is the comment for that as a reply. (This is only my guess, there may be no deleted comments as I can't judge).   So, how about letting me see the deleted comments on my own posts?  Hence I am requesting to allow users to show deleted comments on their own post. (Or introduce a new privileges near about 3k etc for being able to see deleted comments on own posts)
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I  and a user was rude to me in a comment and in an answer. Even though I can't downvote, that answer got -5 and it was automatically deleted. I want to complain about that user. How can I do that?
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Somebody deleted an answer because of an incorrect comment, and I wanted to put a comment on there telling him that the original commenter was wrong, and that he should undelete his answer (which had 4 upvotes at the time).  I had to edit the answer to put "Why was this deleted?!" to get my message through.
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When following a permalink to an answer that has been deleted, most viewers get to see the question instead. (The browser cannot find the &lt;div id="answer-xx" ...&gt; to scroll to, unless one has enough reputation to see deleted posts.) Most of the time this is nice, but it can be confusing.  For those who cannot see deleted posts:   Could some warning be shown when this happens? If yes, then maybe even including the reason like on ? Such as:     The answer you were linked to has been deleted for reasons of moderation.  An alternative could be to show an actual 404 page. To ensure people can then still find the related question, that question should then be linked on that 404 page too.    I guess I'd rather keep the current behavior instead of a 404 page. I assume showing the question when an answer is deleted is very much on purpose, if only for search engines? I like it too.  Like for some time, following links to deleted answers from the global Inbox did show a 404. In that Inbox, links to answers actually use the URLs for questions. Like  where 75129 really is the answer, not the question. For deleted answers this used to show a 404 for those with limited access rights. But nowadays it always redirects to the full URL, where the browser won't scroll for those who cannot see deleted answers. I like that better.