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What happens to the images from deleted questions and/or answers?

Will they be kept or they will be deleted with the answer?

What happens with the images, that are edited out from the post? The links are still there in revision history, but what with the image under that link?

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In general they're kept around, because – as Toon Krijthe says correctly – deletion isn't necessarily the end of it. In particular, posts can be undeleted.

Once in a while we do delete images if we need to (a few days ago, someone uploaded a photo of their credit card, for example), but that's fully manual, and usually in response to a moderator notifying us of a problematic image.

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    Another day, another chair. There goes my never assertion! :-)
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:40
  • @MartijnPieters "In response to moderator notification" is, as far as I'm concerned, close enough to "never" (translation: kinda rare from my point of view).
    – michaelb958--GoFundMonica
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:41
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    @MartijnPieters Could be worse.
    – balpha StaffMod
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:41
  • Auwie! My hair is long enough; I see I'll have to watch my back now for a Balpha-shaped dog next time I assert anything!
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:46
  • In comment the URL is missing, the new URL is: gifbin.com/984896
    – Rob
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 11:37
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Deleted posts are not hard deleted. Users with 10.000 reputation points can still see them. So the images are saved too.

The revision history is also kept.

Hard deletion of posts or revisions are rare.

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    And even then images are not deleted.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:33
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    MartijnPieters So somewhere on the SE servers sits a lonely image of a boat...
    – Toon Krijthe
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:34
  • It is forever waiting for a programmer. Except it was posted before the dedicated SE Imgur domain was added...
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Apr 15, 2014 at 6:38
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As of July 2019, when a post is deleted through spam or offensive flags Stack Exchange sends automatic removal request to imgur for any image in that post.

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