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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How can users preserve information cited from Stack Overflow in version control systems?
Sometimes we find a post on Stack Overflow which explains the very thing that we are trying to achieve in our code. When we commit the respective code into our VCS, we do not write another lengthy ...
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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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Why has my Staging Ground question received no review for a year?
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At staging-ground/78708157, I asked:
Do any browsers support rendering webpages from data encoded in a URI?
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Sometimes, I want to share a basic, pure HTML file with someone, which I ...
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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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What is wrong with my question about Eclipse Lun3r and WebAssembly? Are questions like "How is it possible that this works in an old browser?" bad?
I am talking about this question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/79546110/8902065
It received one downvote and it was deleted. I don't see why. My question is essentially how is it possible that my ...
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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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My question has been closed as "not about programming or software development". This is incorrect. How can I move forward?
I recently asked this question, titled Is it possible to compose Dockerfiles to create multiple images with shared code?. The question has been closed with the close reason "not about programming ...
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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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Question with 5 delete votes is not deleted
The moderator tool's page state:
It takes 3 votes, minimum, to delete a closed question. However, the number of delete votes required scales to the number of votes on the question and all its answers....
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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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Better notification for deleted question posts, to be able to dispute deletions
TL;DR: parent question post deletion is too easy – notifications may help
Something like this – actually analogous to the usual notifications
Parent post deletions should be checked more thoroughly ...
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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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Why did my question have to be deleted?
This is a followup to my question What is the problem with my question? How can I improve it? that was too broad and was closed.
Version 3 of my main question write and run unit tests after concurrent ...
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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 ...
