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I went on to delete a few posts today from the 10k tools page. I noticed the following bug when using the delete button:

  1. I'm merely hovering over the button. Haven't clicked it yet.

    Just hovering

  2. Clicking it shows the following alert box:

    High alert

  3. Afterwards, on selecting OK from the previous section; you'd see this:

    yay for algebra

On viewing the page source; you'd see this HTML:

<a
    href="#"
    id="delete-post-391240"
    title="You voted to delete. 2 more votes from other users are needed to delete this post."
    class=""
    data-delete-prompt="Vote to delete this post? (10 votes remaining)"
    data-undelete-prompt="Vote to undelete this post? (13 votes remaining)">
        delete (2)
</a>

Did I do something wrong in my basic algebra?

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  • Interesting bug.
    – Walker
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:00
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    What is the bug? What do you expect to be different? I probably miss the point...
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:04
  • Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't one extra delete vote required every 10 upvotes? There are 10 upvotes and 2 downvotes on the question. Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:04
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    @rene But, but... but! I used the hand-made red circle thingies...
    – hjpotter92
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:05
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    @hjpotter92 The 10 votes remaining means you have 10 remaining delete votes.
    – Stijn
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:05
  • @Qantas94Heavy I think so, but I wouldn't know which count to believe with a conflict in numbers like this.
    – hjpotter92
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:06
  • @hjpotter92 ok, ok, have my upvote...
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:06
  • @Stijn Ah, I see. Any documentation?
    – hjpotter92
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:07
  • Is that html there after you voted to delete? That could be a potential bug if you could 'load' a new question to delete without a full server roundtrip.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:13
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    @hjpotter92 Yes, I've just found documentation, see my answer.
    – Stijn
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:14

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The 10 votes remaining means you have 10 remaining delete votes.

Here's the feature request for the implementation of this: Can we display the users' remaining votes when voting to delete?

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  • The wordings should be clearer. >.<
    – hjpotter92
    Commented Mar 4, 2014 at 13:26

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