It is not common, but questions and answers can be deleted by their owners, through automatic processes, or by moderators.
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Many posts removed at a time
I edit posts quite often and usually some of them are then removed and I lose the reputation gained by the edit. This is normal, and usually it happens to me with maybe 10% of edited posts in a day...
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Why is my request to remove my own duplicate question denied [duplicate]
I asked several questions here at meta. Some of them were duplicates and marked as such.
I do not want to add to the cluttering, and they are downvoted (the community didn't like the questions), so I ...
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Why are points deleted when the question is deleted? [duplicate]
Why are the reputation-points one get 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 ...
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Got weird message and lost 5 reputation; what does it mean? [duplicate]
I got this and lost 5 reputation. What did I do?
-5 today
-5 9 mins ago removed User was removed
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Etiquette for removing questions which turn out to be bugs
I asked a question on StackOverflow but after researching it further I've found out that the problem is caused by a known bug (now resolved but not yet publicly). Should I delete my question or leave ...
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Dealing with question blanking [duplicate]
This user has two questions. After he got the answer he needed on these questions, he replaced the text of each question with
question deleted question deleted
(e.g. ...
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How do I remove a question I asked, when it has an upvoted answer?
Imagine I ask a question, that I latter consider as not useful and too specific, or it gets down-voted for the same reasons. At the same time, it is not flagged as duplicate, low quality post or etc. ...
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Should questions with trivial answers be deleted? [duplicate]
I recently asked two questions on Stack Overflow about Selenium tests that I thought were caused by interaction between Selenium and AJAX or JavaScript but turned out to be trivial syntax errors. In ...
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Should I delete my heavily-downvoted question?
I previously asked a question that got a lot of negative votes. I've read about rules on deleting posts, and it seems reasonable that I should delete my question since it is probably not useful to ...
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Influence of removal/migration of posts in suggested edits
I edited a question and got 2 reps and then after 2 days that post got removed and I got -2 reps.
I can accept that, but the no. of successful edits also decreased by 1. As one of my suggested edit ...
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Delete vote alert is not useful. Can we please have something better?
I tried to delete a question recently. I get this alert box that asks me if I'm sure that I want to vote to delete. That's fine, there's no need for something better. But then I get this:
How the ...
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Are negative reputation factors tracked separately?
I am getting myself to better understand the reputation system and featured achievements (both good and bad) based on it. I must admit, I have just learned a question-asking ban existed (as I never ...
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I want to understand why my question was closed
I'd like to understand why my question was closed so I can avoid that happening in the future (And of course to find a way to find an answer for the issue I'm having on the first place)
Thank you.
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When I successfully submit multiple delete votes for a single post, unnecessary commas are added to the list of delete-voters on the question page
I recently tried to delete this question:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/1732100/50776 (10K only, sorry)
While deleting, it failed, but then indicated that there was 1/4 delete votes.
Further attempts ...
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Can't delete comment using iPhone
I couldn't delete my comment using iPhone 4 (both orientations), I was only able to edit it. However, on iPad, editing and deleting work normally.
Edit: to be more specific, 'x' button doesn't ...
