Timeline for What happens to the accepted answer when a question is deleted?
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| May 30, 2021 at 8:24 | vote | accept | Martin | ||
| Jun 3, 2019 at 14:33 | history | bounty ended | Martin | ||
| May 17, 2019 at 5:38 | comment | added | Martin | I will add that this was discussed a bit in this chatroom. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 20:40 | comment | added | Glorfindel Mod | @quid I should've noticed that the answers in my search results were all 8 years old ... thanks for the clarification. | |
| May 16, 2019 at 20:40 | history | edited | GlorfindelMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 16, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | quid | Re 1. That's false. It is removed (since October 2012 I think). Old instances were kept though it seems. Undeletion restores it though. If somebody tests and to avoid confusion : after the delete, refresh the page (the check is still shown otherwise) | |
| May 15, 2019 at 7:41 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @Martin If an answer qualifies for reputation retention on the basis of score and non-deleted age, all reputation changes as a result of that answer are kept, regardless of where they originated from (votes, accepts, bounties, etc.) | |
| May 15, 2019 at 7:08 | comment | added | Glorfindel Mod | I couldn't find any, but the question you linked to shows at least that the reputation is kept for a high-scoring answer. | |
| May 15, 2019 at 6:56 | comment | added | Glorfindel Mod |
Yep, that's a moderator ability: searching for deleted:1 isaccepted:1. I'll see if I can find some examples from my own past on Stack Overflow and show some reputation changes to prove the second part.
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| May 15, 2019 at 6:55 | history | edited | GlorfindelMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2019 at 6:52 | comment | added | Martin | BTW is there some trick how regular users could find deleted posts with accepted answer, or were you able to find such posts only using moderator superpowers? | |
| May 15, 2019 at 6:50 | comment | added | Martin | Sorry if my post was unclear. I meant in the second part: If an answer fulfills the conditions for keeping the reputation (i.e., score at least 3 and visible for 60 days), will only the reputation from the upvotes be kept, or does the user keep also +15? | |
| May 15, 2019 at 6:48 | history | answered | GlorfindelMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |