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I understand question deletion by moderators, but I cannot understand why this question was deleted by the Community user: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19208544/

Please could somebody explain this to me.

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    Interesting. It has upvoted answers, so it shouldn't get auto-deleted.
    – Mysticial
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:18

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The user account from which the question was posted was deleted by SE, at the account owner's request. Questions with a score below zero are automatically deleted by the system when an account deletion takes place. That's what happened here.

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  • I thought questions that are upvoted or have upvoted answers are spared. hmm...
    – Mysticial
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:20
  • The question was at -1 when it was deleted. The answers seems to suggest a mundane syntax error.
    – user102937
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:20
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    Right, but I (wrongly) believed that having upvoted answers would be enough to block the auto-deletion. (since we don't want to "lose valuable answers")
    – Mysticial
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:21
  • Not for a destroy operation.
    – user102937
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:22
  • Ah. Good to know.
    – Mysticial
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:22
  • Yeah, destroy is not mostly dead. Destroy is check the pockets for loose change.
    – user102937
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:23
  • Was this a reflection on the quality of the question, the user's profile or is it following some principle that SE will delete all content including related content when asked?
    – Some Helpful Commenter
    Oct 25, 2013 at 20:56
  • @SomeHelpfulCommenter: The OP posted two questions before requesting account deletion. Both questions were very basic; both had a score of -1 at time of deletion. See my answer update.
    – user102937
    Oct 25, 2013 at 21:25

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