I know if we delete any post or answer it is not deleted permanently, Suppose for example  post which is deleted including my answer but still the post is visible to users having 10K+ reputations.  Questions :  1) Is it possible to delete that answer permanently from SO?  2) Is there a way to raise request to SO people to clean my account (which means delete all deleted answers or Posts on my account permanently from SO)?
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I can see my deleted answers. Will they ever be purged from the system, either manually or automatically? Does this kind of "deleted post cleanup" occur periodically, or will all deleted answers typically remain in the system until the end of time?
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Is it possible that I can delete questions in SO which have 3 answers and some comments? Due to privacy concern, I definitely need to delete that.
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In the past few weeks, I've received a few emails from users asking me why I deleted their posts. It's almost always for answers deleted after being correctly flagged as &quot;not an answer&quot;. Typically, the user just doesn't fully understand the Stack Exchange format, and thinks they're leaving a comment or reply. After linking them to the  page and the  page, they typically understand. Now, deleted posts already show a link to the deleted answers help page, which I guess people don't click much. So, I'm suggesting that we make it more obvious by specifically telling them why their post was deleted. I'd like to see some way for moderators to optionally select a deletion reason when removing posts. Something similar to the rejected suggested edits reasons, which would show the user why their post was deleted with relevant links. Here are some of the reasons I'd suggest:  Your post was deleted because...   Comment as answer:  it would be more appropriate as a comment. You can always comment on your own posts, and can comment everywhere once you earn 50 reputation points.   Question as answer:  it appears to be asking a related question. Instead of leaving an answer, you can . Make sure to refer back to this original question, explaining what answers you've tried and why they didn't work.   Me-too answer:  it appears to be re-stating the original question. If you have the same problem as the original question, you can         (if rep &gt;= 15){up vote it to show your support} (if rep &gt;= 50){or start a bounty} (if rep &lt; 15){use the &quot;was this post helpful yes/no&quot; links to support it}.   Thanks answer:  it appears to be a response to another answer. If you'd like to show appreciation for an answer, you can         (if rep &gt;= 15){vote up the answer}  (if rep &lt; 15){use the &quot;was this post helpful yes/no&quot; links under the answer} to support the answer that helped you.   Other:  it does not fundamentally answer the question.     ... For more information, see the  and &quot;&quot;.  I think these cover all of the situations under which I would delete an answer and feel like the user deserves an explanation (albeit a canned message). If it's spam, gibberish, or otherwise obviously not genuine content, then the user shouldn't really be surprised when it's removed, or it might be appropriate to leave a comment. It's too much work to constantly be writing comments though (even with the pro forma comments script, it's kind of unofficial and inconsistent), so I think this would help a lot for making deletion more transparent to the user. Example:  To avoid making this too difficult for the moderator should they not wish to add a reason, the deletion could still happen instantaneously, but a box could show up after the deletion occurs, asking if they'd like to select a reason. If they don't choose a reason, it would just remain with the current default.
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I have meticulously read through similar questions, answers and their comments but I still do not understand how the deletion is done. From what I understand I email the customer service and then they do what exactly?     1) They disable my account so that I can no longer use it?      2) They reassign all of my questions and answers to some other   account? To which one?      3) They delete all my questions and answers so that they go away from   public view?   What is the flexibility (if it exists) of the deletion procedure? Is it possible to erase the traces of my former association with the site. Can I request any of the following be done?     4) All of my questions and answers be deleted from public view?      5) Some of my questions and answers be deleted? If yes what criteria?      6) Can I have all of my contributions be assigned to some other   account which runs as sort of a "collective account" and already has   tons of content so that it doesn't happen like my contributions just   move to some other url but still stay grouped under that location and   therefore that location can be discovered as representing my account?      7) Can I have my contributions dispersed through several "collective   accounts?      8) Can my current public name be removed from any comments to my posts   so that my posts cannot be identified later as once belonging to me?   Please be polite with me. I wouldn't have asked if I have found the answer in the other questions. The other questions are also old and it is not clear what the situation is as per 05/2012.  UPDATE (for those interested):  I asked the Stackoverflow team about the procedure. Apparently none of the points 2-8 I asked above are possible, only 1 will take place. The link to my user page from my contributions is going to be removed and replaced with non-clickable text of an anonymized user name like "user1234". Whether this number is the same as my current user_id is not clear. That's all the information I got.  I'm going now to rename myself to "Anonymous" then request the account deletion. Those interested in the procedure will witness the exact result on this page.  Farewell.
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was voluntarily removed by its author. The author then deleted their account.  Generally, when the author deletes their own question, the "not found" error message shown to &lt;10k users says:     This question was voluntarily removed by its author.   However, if the author deletes their own account sometime after deleting their own post, the notice changes to:     This question was removed from [site name] for reasons of moderation. Please see the help center for possible reasons why a question may be removed.   ...which is shown on questions deleted for any reason other than by their author.  Screenshot:        I believe this is incorrect; it should continue to show the former error page on voluntarily deleted questions even after the author's account gets deleted.
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I've stumbled across an inconstancy in the display of who deleted an answer.  In  on Programmers.SE there are currently two deleted answers.      The display of these two questions - one has the name of the owner, the poster, the other has the string "deleted by owner".  The differences that I can see are:   that one is a 10k+ user and the other is not and maybe the code for how it handles deletes of answers for these two is different. the dates are about a day apart, there might be different versions of the software (yet, its still rather short of a timeframe)   So... it just looks like a minor cosmetic bug that most never see, though may be hinting at duplicated code that could lead to a different bug some time down the road.  Or it could just be that two different releases of SE software put two different strings in the delete message and thats it, never mind, and everything is working as intended.    Of note, there was some tinkering of the self deleted code and display name back on July 17th - .  This isn't the discrepancy seen (neither of these are deleted users), but it might help those with access to the code to look in the area of the code.
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I noticed on  that self-deleted posts do not show up in the Deleted section of the 10k Tools.  Why is this?  It seems like it would be useful to have all deleted posts show up in this list.
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I don't know much about this,  But I've some of the questions on which some user has answered (not helpful answer) also but I want to delete those questions, but whenever I go to delete that question. It is prompting with     What does it mean? Can someone tell me what would be the action taken by Stack Exchange if I delete more questions?
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Why are the reputation points one gets for an answer deleted if the question was deleted? I mean, you made the effort of answering the question with valuable information, spending time for it, and then, just because the question wasn't as good as the answers, you lose reputation.  Seems very unfair to me. (I just lost about 100 points on Stack&nbsp;Overflow.)
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Is it possible to recover an account that was explicitly deleted by a Stack Exchange team member (as opposed to an elected diamond moderator)? That is, the kind of account where the user requested the deletion, or committed atrocities against the community?
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So I tried deleting a question, my question. I'm not a mod, but I have reputation above 10k. I received this message after hitting delete, asking me to make sure I wanted to:    But after clicking Delete Question, I saw this:    It turns out that because the question has answers, I'm prohibited from deleting it. If I can't actually delete this question at all, could it just tell me immediately, and only show me the warning if I can actually delete it?  This is akin to the following analogy.     You see a flyer in your local paper stating there's a new burger shop   opening.  Great, you think to yourself, and rush over to get yourself   some burgers.  On your way into the parking lot, you see a huge banner   proclaiming one of their newest burgers. You see some employees walk   in and out of the restaurant, with T-Shirt with pictures of burgers on   them.  Great, you think to yourself, and walk in.   You get in line,   and after what seems like ages, you finally make it to the front.  You   look up at the menu.  You see that they also sell sandwiches. No, you   tell yourself, I'm looking for burgers.  You see that they also sell   burritos! No, you tell yourself, I'm looking for burgers.  Then you   see that they sell burgers. Great! You pick out a burger, then tell   the employee at the register, "Sir, I'd like to get a regular burger   please." Immediately, the employee looks up, with a quizzical look on   his face, saying "Sir? We don't sell burgers here.".   It's the same situation. I've come to that prompt so that I can delete a question.  After repeated messages and windows letting me know the consequences of deleting, what will happen after I have it deleted, I am told that the option of having it deleted by my own hand never existed in the first place.
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I'd like to delete a question of mine that was downvoted and has close votes, so I flagged it and asked for a mod to delete it but they didn't.  Why can it not be deleted?    I can understand that users shouldn't be able to delete questions and answers that may be useful to others but in this case the community has decided it has no value.  Also, following question edits, the answer with upvotes no longer answers it.
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When someone posts an answer that's really a comment, mods can move it to the comments.  But when someone posts a comment that is essentially a complete answer (and no further answer is likely to be forthcoming) about all we can do to get the answer to be an answer on the question is say "please post that as an answer".  Should mods be given the ability to go the other way, making answers-in-comments into actual answers (simultaneously deleting the comment)?   [Note that this is not the same thing as  which is about commenters making their own comments into answers, nor is it the same as  (which is about askers making comments that answer their questions into answers, and which the previous one should not be marked as a duplicate of since they're asking quite distinct things); it's fairly obvious that those two questions could have very different answers to each other, and both could have very different answers to this question, which is about moderators converting comments to answers. Different questions, requiring different sorts of answers.]  If the original poster of the comment has some strong reason to not want it as an answer they are still able to delete the answer, of course, but the comment would (and generally should) remain deleted in that case.
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What happens to the images from deleted questions and/or answers?  Will they be kept or they will be deleted with the answer?  What happens with the images, that are edited out from the post? The links are still there in revision history, but what with the image under that link?
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I posted an answer on a stackexchange site, and it was deleted by a moderator. Admittedly, the analogy I used was a bit of a stretch and apparently people didn't understand it, so the deletion is understandable. I would be happy to edit the answer and make it clearer, but I don't want to spend time doing so if there's no way to undelete it. Apparently I'm completely unable to undelete the answer, and I'm also unable to contact the moderator to discuss the situation with them. I can't even add comments because "This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users."  Is it normal that an answer is deleted, the author is unable to do anything about it at all?
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I poured my heart out to write a great answer to a question, and I earned a gold badge for it. I'm so proud of the answer that I've even linked to it on the web in several places.  To my surprise, I discovered that the question had been closed without notifying me, and that it had been deleted without notifying me.  Since there already is , this question is specifically about deletions.  Please could I be notified whenever a question that I posted an answer to is deleted? Especially if my answer is long, or earned lots of upvotes. I want to at least be able to fix any links to that question, and maybe convert that answer into a blog post or something, because I really do think it is making the Internet a better place.  Some high-rep users have already found the deleted question that caused me to discover this issue. But I want to be clear that I'm not trying to generate a discussion about whether the deletion was justified or not, I'm pointing out that I was never notified of the deletion, and I think I should have been.  My question is slightly different from , as I want to be notified when a question of my answer is deleted, not necessarily when my question has been deleted.
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Usually when answer gets deleted directly (i.e. not as side effect of its parent question deleted) it says "deleted by [name here] [time stamp]". Plus, it always leave a revision.  However, I just stumbled over  on Stack Overflow:        Weird, don't you think? Looking in the , nothing strange in there and nothing strange in  as well.  Finally, the last straw... :        Another thought was maybe some automagical conversion to comment, but no such comment exists.  Can anyone shed some light over this phenomenon?