Questions tagged [deleted-answers]
Questions related to deleted answers specifically.
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What is the proper way to delete your own answer?
There are times when I answer here -- but, upon further reflection, it is clear that I'm not the best person to answer the question (because of lack of expertise or just confusion about the question). ...
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Should quote only answers be treated like link only answers?
As the question suggests, I'm unsure of what to do with flagged answers that only have a quotation and no other commentary. For context, I came across a review today with this answer, which fits this ...
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Why was my answer deleted?
I am puzzled by why a moderator deleted my answer:
Why is the mean of the natural log of a uniform distribution (between 0 and 1) different from the natural log of 0.5?
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Is a sole answer with a down vote worse than no answer at all?
I was the only responder to a question recently. The question betrayed some misunderstandings on the part of the asker, and while my response was accurate, respectful and responsive, it also asked and ...
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How do I see my deleted answers?
It's happened a few times that I recall writing an answer on a topic but can't find it later. I think it happens when the question was deleted -- for example, if the answer has score 0 and the user ...
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If you misunderstand the question, should you delete your answer?
When users struggle for appropriate jargon, I often misunderstand what they're after. I feel like if I had a dental appliance, I could encourage more precise questions on this site. Nonetheless, I do ...
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Bad behaviour from a moderator has a negative impact on the community
Moderator behavior is a very crucial point for a community. This means that such people have to be evaluated in a very strict manner. All the time. Otherwise they tend to derange and misuse their ...
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Why was an answer considered off-topic and when it was deleted?
One of my recent answers got deleted while it got scoring of +12/-2 and for some time it was the accepted answer. I would consider this scoring to be rather positive. The answer that got deleted ...
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When should answers be self-deleted?
I'm new here. Yesterday (my time) I answered this question. In the subsequent micro-discussion that took place in the comments, discovered that I had, in fact, misread the intent of the question, and ...
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