Timeline for Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted
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| Jan 29, 2022 at 14:08 | history | edited | bad_coder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://blog.stackoverflow.com with https://blog.stackoverflow.com
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 23, 2013 at 2:03 | comment | added | user148312 | ...me ever knowing about it (unless I do offline track-keeping of all my questions), then the quality of SO just takes a drop in my opinion. | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 2:01 | comment | added | user148312 | Maybe one way of respecting the community is not to delete questions with alot of upvotes, then loss aversion wouldn't be so much of a deal and then we could make deleted posts and questions available somewhere on the user page, and then people could feel comfortable and trust SO to keep their content, even if potentially it was only available to themselves, and that would all mean quite alot to a big number of users. Some questions are not very hot, or easy to answer. So I would hope that over time, some answer will come, and if all of a sudden that question might dissappear forever without.. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 17:55 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | @GitaarLAB: I think it's a very real problem that other users can access your deleted questions (and any answers and comments to them), but you can't. Not being able to trust that content you submitted will be available at a later date is another (related) issue. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 17:12 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | @Jeff Atwood: I put some more thought into the question you raised and I think you aren't giving the current design enough credit. Unless you happen to have a ♦ next to your name, it's really not easy to find deleted content. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 17:07 | history | edited | Jon Ericson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Jeff decided to make his argument in the comments to this answer and not in his own answer for some reason. Ok. Let's address them.
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| Apr 8, 2013 at 23:25 | comment | added | GitaarLAB | @JeffAtwood: since you 'understand how humans work' you must know human memory works by association. I often answer questions because they intrigue me. I'll remember when I face a problem that I might already have solved that problem and provided a detailed answer with references and so-forth, assuming my answer is safe on SO (as long as it exists). Currently I could find the title to a deleted question I participated in if I lost rep. But not when the rep was locked in over time, in which case I couldn't even bother the mods | >10K user to retrieve my answer (I wouldn't know what..) | |
| Apr 8, 2013 at 23:20 | comment | added | GitaarLAB | @JeffAtwood: I understand your idea. It's the opposite of the core-idea behind amazon's mechanical turk (essentially the notion that western people have been brainwashed to work for free just to get their name higher up on some score-list). But a 'fix' against this psychological effect is already accepted and implemented: blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/… Also, since only 5 questions and answers are displayed in the default user-page, those notions (should they be visible in gray for example) would not always be visible 'every time. Forever'. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 8:04 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | I'm not bitter, I just understand how human beings work. I guess that's sort of the same thing. But loss aversion is huuuuge and showing people their deleted content, every day, on their user page is pretty much the textbook definition of it. "Gee, remember your deleted question with allll those upvotes? Look at it every single time you go to your user page. That'll remind you of what you lost, and how much you miss it. Have you considered complaining about the unfairness of that deletion today? How about tomorrow? Maybe next week? Just think about it. Every time. Forever." | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 5:56 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | @Jeff Atwood: You seem awfully bitter for some reason. At any rate, seeing reputation drop is a different problem than being able to see what happened to a deleted question. Ironically, "loss aversion" is precisely the reason I wrote this answer. I noticed the deleted question when the whole reputation recalculation occurred and discovered to my horror that I was getting a 404 page. I'd long stopped caring about SO reputation, but I still care about the things I wrote. SO was promoted as part blog, and someone was randomly deleting my posts. Your answer here adds insult to injury. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 5:20 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | You should look up the massive arguments and ragequitting when deleted reputation was revealed here, as part of "improvements" to how rep was calculated, contrary to my direct advice. There was a whole podcast on it. Related, see "loss aversion" on Wikipedia. It's incredibly powerful, and for all the wrong reasons. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 23:57 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | @Jeff Atwood: Who said anything about rubbing noses in deleted questions? If if I have the URL, I can't see what I wrote, but lot's of other folks can. Is it bad customer service and a sign the network will fail? Probably not. Is it annoying and does it make my blood boil every time I'm reminded of it? Yep. Thankfully, there seems to be some movement to let me see my deleted question if I have a link. Surely, if the complaints are overwhelming, the policy could be reversed easily enough. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 23:42 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @markj looks like that hasn't come to pass : quantcast.com/stackexchange.com?country=US even in the last year, US traffic to the Stack Exchange network has tripled. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 23:39 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | "People will continue to whine about deleted questions whether they can read them or not" I find that rubbing a person's nose in the content they can't have undeleted is a recipe for a lot of complaints. "We begin by coveting what we see every day.." | |
| Jun 27, 2012 at 22:28 | history | edited | Jon Ericson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Here's your freehand circle, Won't.
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| Apr 25, 2012 at 11:48 | comment | added | MarkJ | +1. You have experienced bad customer service. And if anyone talks about users "whining", well, that is truly appalling customer service. We should all remember Stack Overflow's revenue model. Advertising. Advertisers are buying the StackOverflow community, yes even the ones who "whine" bring in money. Buying their page views and their click throughs. If the "whiners" experience bad customer service and leave in sufficient numbers, the whole Stack Exchange network will fold. | |
| Mar 23, 2012 at 17:00 | history | bounty ended | Jeremy | ||
| Mar 5, 2012 at 22:30 | history | answered | Jon Ericson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |