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When do network moderators delete questions?
I have been going over the list of recently deleted posts, to see what new there since my last visit, and I have noticed something strange.
One of the network-wide moderator has deleted a question. ...
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Should moderators intervene when the accepted answer is blatantly wrong?
Generally the moderators have nothing to do with the actual mathematical content of the posts. Their work is when the posts are incorrectly made (e.g. questions in answers, or comments in answers), or ...
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How to produce a list of my own deleted answers?
From a previous thread, it seems that the functionality to list deleted answers has been removed. Is this true? What if I only want to see a list of my own deleted answers?
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Deletion of a question with upvoted answers
Rationals and irrationals on the real number line is not very well-posed, but all the answers seemed to interpret it the same way: prove that for every two irrationals $i_1 < i_2$, there is a ...
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How do I get a post removed?
I have been asked by my University Mathematics department to remove a post that I made a while ago, how can I go about doing this?
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How to delete an accepted answer?
That's the question. I would like to delete some of my answers that have been accepted. How can I do that? Everytime I hit delete it is not possible for me to do so.
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My comment was removed and I don't know why
I don't remember the exact words and perhaps the moderator who removed my comment would care to explain why he did so and paste my comment somewhere on the thread.
In this answer I left a comment ...
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Losing votes despite being over the 200 rep limit
I was a little surprised to have found that I lost 132 rep due to some user that was deleted (!). What I do not understand, however, is that this has happened on a day that I am (so far) 17 votes ...
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How do I delete my question?
I tried to contribute to the math forum by providing a question and an answer that I thought was insightful, I am getting a lot of down votes without any explanations. I want to take my question down. ...
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Deleting my accepted answer and contacting the mod
I wish to delete my accepted answer here. When I flagged it for mod attention, the review was that there was there was no evidence to support my contention. I do not know what to do at this stage. ...
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Re-asking a question
I asked Why $p$-adically interpolate? while I wasn't signed in - this unknown user is me. Although this is a pretty general question, and should probably be easy to answer by an expert in that field, ...
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What should I do about a question I asked, which I now realize is a bad question?
I posted this the other day because it seemed like a good idea at the time. However, I now realize it was an incredibly stupid question!
What's good etiquette in situations like this? Deletion? ...
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Vulgar Username
I think necessary steps should be taken against the profile http://math.stackexchange.com/users/26920/urine-soaked-pajamas as the user name and avatar are offensive and go against the dignity of the ...
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Do deleted answers live forever?
From what I understand a 10K+ user can see all deleted answers. Does a deleted answer remain visible to the 10K+ users forever?
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No longer relevant comments
The following scenario frequently happens: member $M_1$ answers a question, but he makes a typo that member $M_2$ points out. So $M_2$ leaves a comment, $M_1$ corrects the answer. If this correction ...
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how do you delete a question that you have posted on this website?
Hi how do I delete a question that I've posted on here? Can't seem to find any delete options
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More granularity in locking questions
Is it possible to have more granularity in of time-span for locking questions? Currently the available choices are 1 hr, 1 day, 1 week, and permanent. There are times where longer, but not permanent ...
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Why was “Rational numbers - sticks and stones” deleted?
Could some 10k or ♦ mod shed some light on why this question was deleted?
I understand that there may have been a good reason for it, but the error page I'm getting doesn't really explain it, beyond ...
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Three answers disappeared
Yesterday I have 287 answers in my profile, today 284. I don't know which answers disappeared, the only thing I can say is that I lost some reputation in functional analysis tag. What has happened? I ...
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How do I move a post to another forum, like CV/stats?
So yesterday I asked this question here, but I think that is might get more attention over at Stats/CV.
How do I move it, or ask someone to move it?
I ask because I was tempted to delete it ...
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Getting back a deleted question
I asked a question and posted it. Immediately I saw a flaw and deleted it hastily. Now it want it back to correct it.
What to do?
Thanks for any help.
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Why can't I revist my own deleted question?
I posted a question and then deleted it. The text block turned red, and the "delete" button changed into "undelete". Presumably if I click the "undelete" link it will undelete the question; this has ...
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Are deleted comments destroyed?
When I delete a comment, is it destroyed completely? Or does it still exist, perhaps visible to moderators? If the latter, can it be undeleted again?
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Should identical answers on questions which are abstract duplicates of each other be allowed?
Let's say that a question is posted, asking how to find
$$\sum_{k=1}^n2k^2.$$
It is proposed that the question be closed as a duplicate of a much older one, asking how to find
$$\sum_{k=1}^nk^2,$$
but ...
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Policy on users deleting their own questions?
Recently a user deleted his/her own question regarding the applications of continued fractions (link for 10k+ users), possibly in response to comments (including several of mine) which noted that ...
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On deleting vs. closing duplicate questions.
Recently a question was deleted by the OP after it was pointed out in comments that it was a duplicate. I was in the process of composing an answer, but I was not able to post it when I finished since ...
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Why was “Equilateral triangle and a parabola” deleted?
I came across this deleted question (10k+ only) in the mod tools overview. I don't understand why the question was deleted.
As far as I can see, it is a completely appropriate, non-spammy, ...
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Deleting my answer which was accepted
I wish to delete my own incorrect answer to a question. My answer was (for reasons beyond my understanding) marked as correct, although it was pointed out that my answer is incorrect. Does deleting ...
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Does deleting an answer affect the attached reputation?
I have recently seen some answers deleted by the users who had posted them. Do these users keep the reputation points (positive or negative) acquired by these answers just before deletion?
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Deleting your own answers
When should you delete your own answers? I'm not asking for only the case where your answer is wrong (which is discussed in this topic), but more generally, when it would be good practice to delete ...
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What to do with these posts on the “Batman equation” question?
These three posts (here, here, and here) on the Batman question are certainly not answers to the original question. However, I'm unsure about what exactly to do with them. Here are possibilities I've ...
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about removing question
I am not sure if this is the right place to put the question here. I accidentally reposted my question.
Can one shut down his/her own
question?
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Do we delete some of the questions that have been closed?
There are at least seven pages of closed questions (I got the list by searching for closed:1 the).
Some of them are clearly off-topic and I believe we can delete ...
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What should be deleted? If I realize a question is pointless?
Should one remove questions that are "pointless" since the problem is much simpler than one originally thought?
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A record of questions answered
Question: Is there a way to keep a record of one's own answers (including stats and votes) to questions that are deleted?
Thanks!
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Question based on a blog post I was not aware it was a theorem stated and proved in another site
This question of mine was based on an exercise posted in a blog. I asked an identification of the theorem it refers to. This theorem was identified in a comment to my question: it is stated and proved ...
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Protocol for deleting wrong answers.
Assume someone asks a question, I read it and think "ok I've got it". And post my answer. After some amount of time I realize, or am alerted that my answer is wrong. Perhaps it was too sloppy, or ...
