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Regular (non-moderator) users should be able to override deletions by Community user [duplicate]

There is a question on Judaism.SE that got deleted by the Community user. This question isn't terrible (we have worse one's there), and I'm not complaining about this question in particular. I wanted ...
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Can ordinary users with access to moderator tools undelete questions deleted by the Community♦ user? [duplicate]

When moderators delete a post, ordinary users cannot vote to undelete. When a question is dead or abandoned, it may be deleted by the Community♦ user (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveAbandonedQuestions). ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange

This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network. It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?

Related to Meta Super User efforts: Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes and Meta Server Fault efforts: Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions We already auto-remove ...
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
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3 answers
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Auto-deletion a bit trigger happy?

I just had the only question I've ever asked on SO deleted. I can only assume this is because it was both reasonably old, and negatively scored. The problem I have with this, is that until a few days ...
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Proposed Change to Community Deletion Criteria

Per this answer, the Community user autodeletes any answer that matches this criteria (among others): The system will automatically delete closed (not as a duplicate), unlocked questions with zero or ...
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Regular users should be able to vote to undelete moderator-deleted posts

When a moderator deletes a post, nobody except a diamond moderator can undelete that post. There is a pretty good reason for this behaviour, as before this was implemented it happened rather regularly ...
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1 answer
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Why was my question removed?

Here's the Google Cache of the question, +10k link. I thought it was a good question, and I put serious effort into conveying what I wished to know as clearly as possible. Furthermore, I couldn't ...
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How can a question deleted by community be undeleted?

On Dec 23, 2013 I edited two of my questions on Physics.SE: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82673/aether-isnt-connected-to-earth https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82453/are-...
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Why should a question that's labeled as duplicate lead to a 10K-only page?

I understand the general rationale for wanting to close questions as duplicate with at least one answer. I also understand the general rationale for wanting to close a question as a duplicate that ...
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Any recourse for automatically deleted questions?

Regarding an unloved question of mine here: Tuple unpacking combined with ipython shell escape It had a drive-by downvote for some time, not sure why (no comment left). So, it was deleted by ...
wim's user avatar
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Why was "Multiple config.ru files and nginx/passenger" deleted? [duplicate]

I just noticed this post was deleted: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9010309/multiple-config-ru-files-and-nginx-passenger I found this by googling for a problem I had. And this question is ...
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