In light of downvotes and comments it seems like I should delete this question, in hindsight it is obviously too vague.  But when I tried to delete it, I was presented with a dire warning about deleting any question with an answer -- this might result in being banned from asking questions!  If any moderator wishes to delete this question, go right ahead -- I regret having asked it.  I would like to venture into BGE, but given my complete ignorance of game design software I think I'll need some tutorials, examples, etc.  Can anyone recommend their favourite Absolute Beginner's Guide to BGE, preferably video format?  I have a CGcookie membership so can access their stuff, but have not been able to find anything there that fits the bill :-(  I'm also aware of the excellent ebook N00b to Pro, which has been very helpful to me in the past, but I thought a video overview might get me started faster, and a couple of recommends for really good ones would be even better.
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Spam gets fairly heavily punished - 100 reputation penalty, if I recall correctly, and the content itself gets hidden in the revision history.  Now if we just have some rubbish:     dfajiojaifojadiofjadhigaowkokaomdiovnuiyhioqejgioqejgio   I'm not talking about someone posting a question or comment as an answer (i.e. possibly just not knowing the rules or being frustrated with not having the required privileges), or someone making some really horrible attempt at answering the question, I'm talking about an answer that clearly shows absolutely no observation of any content on the page.  This, in my opinion, causes a similar amount of harm to the site - I'm inclined to say the fact that someone posts spam isn't as important as the fact that they're posting something that needs to be deleted, since we're likely going to delete it pretty quickly, and they're (likely) behaving maliciously, or am I wrong?  Why don't we treat this equally harshly, or why do we treat spam as harshly as we do?    Side notes:  I'm sure I've seen a few times where users get punished for posting spam when their link is likely actually relevant to the question and useful (should I flag these? They are still link-only answers, so they shouldn't really come back, and often I'm just not sure enough). While false positives are bad, it seems worse that we're treating worse behaviour better.  I'm assuming that's not what "abusive" in this reason is referring to: (I'm also not sure, off the top of my head, how this one gets treated)     It is offensive, abusive, or hate speech
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currently shows "Review completed 21 mins ago" with one "Delete" vote and five "Recommend Deletion" votes.    However, ; how can the review be completed with all "Delete" votes, yet the answer remains undeleted?  EDIT: This was finally deleted by a moderator, but my question still stands: what's going on here?  EDIT 2:  Looks like this just  (six "Recommend Deletion" votes, but it's still around), so whatever it is, it's still going on.
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I deleted one of my questions and would like to undelete it. This requires finding the question.  I think you shouldn't be prevented from seeing your own posts that you have deleted. It should be easier than me remembering the link or checking the browser history to easily look these up.   I would currently need 10K to see my deleted items and even then if I can find their URL.
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I was able to see , which has been flagged as not an answer, while going through the review tools. Is this supposed to be possible, or is this a glitch? If it's meant to be possible - what's the point of it? Surely being the OP I'm going to be biased and most likely wish to choose to disagree with the flags...    update:   I've been able to select "flag or disagree" and then say "I disagree"...   So, would there be some gaming involved here, if I was to agree with the flag, then delete my own answer (would I get a helpful flag for that), then undelete it (still leave my answer there)...?  However, as expected, it now appears to have disappeared from the queue as expected (or at least I assume it has, as it hasn't appeared in the 50 from multiple page reloads anyway...)  And here it is in flag history:
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As a moderator I sometimes1 find myself needing to explain disassociation to a user, usually one who has tried to delete posts that he's belatedly realized are connected to him.  It'd sure be handy if I could link to a page in the Help Center instead of explaining it anew each time.  We have a page on how to delete an account, but not the less-drastic action of disconnecting a single post. I understand that this is not something we want to encourage people to do willy-nilly, as it must be done by an SE employee (we mods can't do it) and that's a hassle.  But I don't think having a page in the Help Center will, by itself, cause a surge of requests. I'll propose some language here in an effort to help out and not just ask for things.  Use it or not as you see fit. While this request comes from the &quot;insider&quot; knowledge of the solution, disassociation, I'm writing the topic from the &quot;outsider&quot; perspective, which is closer to &quot;aiieeeee, I shouldn't've posted that!&quot;. (I've belatedly become aware of , but mine is a little more specific so I'm posting it anyway.) 1 Three times this week, though fortunately that's unusually frequent.   I've thought better of my question; can I delete it? You may have had second thoughts about a question you've asked.  Maybe you don't want your coworkers to see that question about job-hunting, or you don't want certain family members to see just how much of an expert you've become on video games when they thought you were focusing on school.  We get it; Stack Exchange makes it easy to get good answers to your questions, so naturally you asked. If your question has answers, though, it's not fair to the people who wrote them for you to delete your question.  They put effort into helping you and even if you no longer want the answers, somebody else might.  This is why the system prevents you from deleting answered questions most of the time, and it's also why if you flag to request deletion the flag will probably be declined. However, you can request that a post you've made (question or answer) be disassociated from your account.  This means it will remain on the site, but it will no longer be attributed to you.  It won't show up on your profile, it won't have your name on it, and you won't get any reputation from it.  (You also won't be able to accept an answer later, because it's no longer your question, so do that now if you want to.)  Disassociation is irreversible, so make sure this is what you want. To request disassociation, use the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of the page.  In the form, say you want to disassociate a post and include the URL. While disassociation is permitted, this is meant to be an exception, not a routine action.  Please be respectful of people's time and do not abuse this.  A pattern of posting rashly and requesting disassociation, over and over again, could lead to suspension.
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Take a look at . It's a really crappy question that (especially for the first revision) really deserves its -4 score.  However, one user has written what (to me, who doesn't know jack about Objective C) looks like a great answer, tutorial style.  Knowing nothing about the topic, I can't really judge this or do anything about it, but I just feel bad that the answerer has gone through some lengths to write up a (seemingly) good answer for a question that hardly anybody will ever look at. I can't even upvote the answer, because I don't know if it's good.  One idea that I had was a "Flag for pro attention" kind of thing that make the question show up in some lists for people that are active in the particular tag(s). However, I think things like that have been discussed before, and not really come to a conclusion. I myself can't think of a good way to accomplish this.  But I also don't want to leave this question rotting there. So how would you handle this  and similar cases?
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was recently closed (partly thanks to my own vote to close it.) While it was closed as being "off topic", I'm not sure that's actually the case. The poster asked about resources for understanding the facade and decorator patterns. While it's not a perfect fit for SO (e.g. there was no actual code) the reason I personally voted to close was my disdain for the complete lack of research effort made. (A simple Google search turns up a ton of resources.)  I know that downvoting is intended to mark questions that show little research effort (as pointed out in ) but should be a strong enough reason to close?  I find myself voting to close for this reason relatively frequently, so I suppose my two questions are:   Is this a legitimate reason to vote to close, or should I just be downvoting these questions? If it is a legitimate reason, can it be added to the list of reasons for closure? I don't think it fits comfortably in any of the current reasons.
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Today I came across an OBVIOUSLY good answer in /review. It had 7 upvotes, contained lists, paragraphs of explanation, and well-applied sample code. It was also moderately long. How does a question like this get flagged for review? I don't really know how the algorithm works.   If this is low-quality then I feel bad about all of my answers.  Here's a  if you care to see it in context. It's not really a huge problem (as Bart's comment emphasizes), but this seems like an extreme outlier in every measurable aspect.
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These three questions are essentially the same:        I found a good solution for it, blogged, and answered all three of these questions with the same post. Two of those were deleted, so I'm assuming it's bad form to answer multiple questions with the same answer.  What is the proper way to help people who've asked the same question in a different place?  Also, why was the answer with one upvote deleted, leaving one with no upvotes?
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I posted . I think it was probably a better fit for the , but for the reasons I cited in my question, I posted it on SO.     I deliberated whether to post this on code review or here. I came to   the conclusion that it is a straightforward question about PHP and   with the number of supporters here, it would likely get an answer, as   code review is slow and the question has a greater chance of not being   answered.   The answers and feedback have been amazing and, I believe, will add another good resource for visitors to the site.  I have attempted to be active on the Code Review SE, but there is not a great deal of interaction.   Can anyone suggest a way to support our Beta sites and yet still get good answers?
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I was just reading , i.e., stop moderation and similar type duties, for some period of time to get the attention of the SE staff. It was only on the site for a few minutes, and I was just about finished reading it, when it was deleted. I assume the OP didn't delete it, so I suspect it was likely done by a moderator. I realize having somebody ask other people to take such actions would not be appreciated by SE, but I don't believe such censorship is warranted. As far as I know (but I'm not an expert), it didn't break any rules here.  I have seen from various recent posts and answers there's a lot of confusion, frustration and anger here, with people going to reduce or stop various moderation type activities regardless of whether or not any posts explicitly asking people to take such actions are removed. Actually, I would not be surprised if this post will also be removed just for me asking about it.
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they were question banned; it turned out it (in part) it was because of deleted questions.   was deleted by the Community user.  I'm aware it will delete old posts that have a negative score, but for a minute or two, I was really puzzled as to why it was unilaterally deleted without some notation left.  Can we have the Community user leave a notation in a post's history as to why the post was deleted?    Something like the following would suffice:     Post deleted automatically due to having negative votes and no activity for three months
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I just found  , and I must say I found it very useful; however, it was closed as "Off topic". Now, it hasn't generated all that many page views, but I would have loved it if it was open, in case something new came up in the past year it was closed.   The "Off topic" specification doesn't exactly explain what the problem is with the question; I see the point for Stack Overflow, given there is no actual coding problem discussed - but a user in that post points out:     (That aside, prepare for your question to be closed, it's a bit too close to "please provide me a list of", which isn't muchly appreciated)   Now, the thing is, a lot of times I actually would appreciate greatly a "provide me a list of" question, like in this case - however, I can see the point in this posting in particular not being on-topic for Stack Overflow.   My question then is - is there a place where such "listing" questions about computer software in general can be asked? I don't think it would fit in programmers.SE, and one may think superuser.com would be appropriate - but then again, its purpose could be understood as specific questions about how to do more advanced stuff with existing software, thereby excluding again listing questions.   If that is so, then where do such question belong? If Super User on the other hand is appropriate, wouldn't the referred post be better off moved to Super User, and opened for contributions there - instead of sitting on Stack Overflow closed?
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I had a problem earlier this day and started .  To get stuff done, I eventually decided to circumvent the problem by doing it completely different. This means that I won't be able to try out and accept new answers, as my code has changed so much. There are already answers but they don't solve the problem.  Should I   delete the question? add a comment or edit it stating that the question is abandoned? just do nothing and waste other people's time thinking about it?
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My motivation: I wasn't sure where to ask a question about the GnuGPG tool - should it be Stack Overflow, or Server Fault, or Super User?  Ultimately, I decided by searching for "GPG" on the three sites and seeing which had the most questions with the highest votes.  Could a tool help with this?
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I know this seems like a good idea, but this far into the game you should be able to tell from network behavior that I'm not a spammer…  I had a compound question. I broke it up because breaking it up was possible—it probably isn't even necessary in that it wouldn't otherwise get closed. Now I doubt either of my questions will be easily answered, but it stinks when you want to run (irl) to have to wait on a question timer which means posting one at a later time. Can't we fight spammers more effectively in a different way?  You know it's my intent to ask the question (or you'd give me a captcha). You also know that historically my questions have been   Can't we find a way to make this not stupid?