Linked Questions
11 questions linked to/from Four-year old question with 48 upvotes and 81 stars just got deleted
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What can we learn from Quora?
When we were doing the VC rounds, the company (rightly or not) that was on every VC's radar in the Q&A field was Quora.
Link to sign up: http://quora.com/hackernews
Quora is a question and answer ...
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How can I encourage Stack Overflow to rein in the 'subjective' vigilantes? [closed]
I'm on SO pretty much every day researching something to do with programming, and over the last month or two, I find I'm growing frustrated and a little disgusted at how many interesting questions ...
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Community-led deletionism: a protocol for sanity
A couple of events in the past few days have caused me to reflect - yet again - on the direction we're headed with regard to deletion on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange.
First, a moderator on one of ...
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Please stop using SoftwareEngineering.SE as your toilet bowl [closed]
Stack Overflow users have been using the "off topic - belongs on SoftwareEngineering.SE" close reason as an alternative to all the other close reasons. It'd be helpful if people actually read the FAQ ...
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Question deletions are getting out of hand
Update: Delete votes are now limited, see Should delete votes be limited like close votes?.
Should this question have been deleted?
Why do people think functional programming will catch on? (now ...
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Why is the time limit for editing comments 5 minutes?
What is the reasoning behind this?
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Why are we deleting instead of merging?
Those answers were so useful to me. If I knew it would be deleted, I would have saved the answers.
I googled my question and found a link to it, but it gives a 404.
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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People abusing deleting questions?
I was looking at the deleted questions list today and came across about 20 questions all deleted by John Saunders, Gulzar and Mehrdad. Why === instead of == in PHP comparison? [closed] is just one ...
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Remove Disciplined Badge
Disciplined Badge: Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher.
I don't see how this badge affects the community in a positive way, and it might be doing more harm to the community than good.
Even ...
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Don't delete questions! [duplicate]
I have a hard time verbalizing how shocked and horrified I am to learn that questions can be and actually are deleted.
The only reasonable use case I see is spam or very clear abuse.
But anything ...
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How can I recover my "What are the top CSS gotchas" question and answer? [closed]
Around, I think, November 2012, I asked a question akin to "What are the most important CSS gotchas?" Obviously, not a good match for SO. TL; DR - can someone with the appropriate rep please pastebin ...