Timeline for Is it acceptable to unupvote and unaccept an answer to delete a question?
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| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:55 | comment | added | M.Babcock | @NicolBolas - I'll give you a +1 for that. You're right that no one can know why someone did it, but that isn't the question. I'm curious whether it is a generally accepted practice. Sure mods can undelete a question but one could also argue that there isn't enough warning (or possibly penalty) for doing so. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | @M.Babcock: Yes, but that's how you feel. Maybe this person doesn't feel this way. Maybe he feels he shouldn't have asked it to begin with and considers it a mistake. Who knows? This is why questions can be undeleted by community vote (if you have enough rep) or moderator action. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:43 | comment | added | M.Babcock | @NicolBolas - Perhaps but I have several questions asked previously that I would sooner see removed than endure the embarrassment of letting more qualified users read. Does that mean it is appropriate for me to effectively erase my less educated questions and hide them from people who would benefit from them? We all ask seemingly stupid questions, but I'm sure we aren't the only ones with those stupid questions. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:39 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | @M.Babcock: They may have changed their mind about the question rather than the answer. They didn't want the question around, so they did what they had to in order to remove it. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:34 | comment | added | M.Babcock | If they changed their mind about the answer then wouldn't it be more appropriate to revoke the upvote and accept, leave the question, and then provide a response that they found that may answer the question better? The fact that the question was deleted bothers me most of all. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:29 | comment | added | user154510 | I believe the question is relatively old, based on the OP's first post about this question. | |
| Mar 16, 2012 at 1:27 | history | answered | Nicol Bolas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |