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21 questions linked to/from Deleted Meta Questions Archive
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Set up an archive for legendary deleted questions
A number of highly upvoted "fun" questions were recently deleted.
Examples:
The "Wedding Cake" question (10k+)
The "Worst UI" question (10k+)
The original Boat Programming question (Deleted ages ...
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Someone's going to have to clean this up
Wow, that was one heck of an April Unicorn's Day party. But now that it's April 2nd in UTC land, look at this place. It's trashed. There is unicorn crap everywhere. I don't know how many people OD'd ...
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Can we have an isdeleted:1 search option/operator? [duplicate]
It would make looking for the answers we have deleted so much easier...
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Allow question askers to close their own questions unilaterally
I have found a number of reasons to close a question of my own:
I've found out it's a dupe
it belongs on an SE site that didn't exist when the question was asked
it is wrong; that is, based on ...
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May we have the Jon Skeet Facts thread back?
I did a google search for "Jon Skeet facts" but the meta page which listed them all is gone: Jon Skeet Facts
Google cache still has a copy, but may I ask the Powers That Be to UPDATE TABLE SET ...
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What happened to "What's your best programming joke?"?
One of the most popular questions on Stack Overflow, What's your best programming joke? has recently been deleted. Why was this done, rather than migrated to programmers.SE? Does this not fall into ...
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Duplicate asking to explain chunk of code, with more than 400 upvotes, was deleted [closed]
My question about a block of JavaScript code, "Can you explain why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10", was deleted and I want to know why.
It is a programming question with 400+ upvotes that contains a ...
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Can we please get an option for the "envelope" feature back?
The new dropdown is nice eye candy, but the "envelope" notification had better functionality.
Is there any plans to bring it back as an option perhaps?
Pretty please?
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With the old interface ...
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Helping to delete question where own answer gained >= X votes
This is related to my earlier post here and inspired by this answer.
Could there be a badge for helping to delete a question wherein your own (non-wiki) answer has gained a certain amount (tbd) of ...
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Unofficial Stack Overflow deleted question archive now available [closed]
With a modified version of my so-static tools, along with all the historical data dumps, I've made an archive of all deleted questions (and their answers) from Stack Overflow.
The site is no longer ...
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rep threshold to delete a question; close versus delete
It is very frustrating when a question gets deleted, especially in the middle of trying to help someone. This has happened at least twice to me now, where someone (usually with lower rep, and, granted,...
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Cataloging Canonical Answers
I was dismayed to find this (now old) feature-request declined: Another take on canonical answers: Add a "canonical" vote (... and this similar feature-request yet-to-be-addressed: Canonical ...
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How about archiving deleted posts in Wayback Machine?
This idea was initially inspired by deleting April Fools' questions post, where funny (sometimes useful) posts (exempt toaster) are get removed from the sites, so only high-rep users can access them.
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Why isn't Stack Overflow on this map? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Size of online communities
Online Communities 2
And where should we be?
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Howto view deleted posts <10k rep [duplicate]
Have you ever wanted to view a deleted question even if you don't have the required 10k rep for it?
All you need is the link:
Take for instance a question from the deleted meta questions archive ...
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