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25 questions linked to/from Question deletions are getting out of hand
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What can we learn from Quora?
When we were doing the VC rounds, the company (rightly or not) that was on every VC's radar in the Q&A field was Quora.
Link to sign up: http://quora.com/hackernews
Quora is a question and answer ...
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How does "Reputation" work?
On Stack Exchange, users may gain a certain level of reputation.
What does reputation do?
How can a user gain or lose reputation?
See also:
What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it? in the ...
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Dealing with "Find out who's going to buy the croissants" [closed]
On Stack Overflow at the moment, there is a popular question which is currently high in the Hot Questions feed: https://stackoverflow.com/q/17807531/42473
So far it has been closed twice (once by the ...
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Do not delete good duplicates!
This question (currently deleted (visible only to 10kers)) is a great example of a duplicate question that should not be deleted. [Note: this question was later merged into this one, which resulted in ...
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Community-led deletionism: a protocol for sanity
A couple of events in the past few days have caused me to reflect - yet again - on the direction we're headed with regard to deletion on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange.
First, a moderator on one of ...
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Should delete votes be limited like close votes?
First off, let me say that I am not against deleting questions. I have done a fair bit of it in the past.
However, I think that when the same three or four people account for 80% of the deleted ...
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The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010 [closed]
First, let me go on record saying I absolutely support the concept that closed questions which are not useful in either content or as a search term variety duplicate, absolutely should be deleted.
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What should we do with old, very popular closed questions?
Motivated by the deletion of
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer-closed
Email Validation - Regular Expression
On one hand, I disagree with these ...
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Why are we deleting instead of merging?
Those answers were so useful to me. If I knew it would be deleted, I would have saved the answers.
I googled my question and found a link to it, but it gives a 404.
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Four-year old question with 48 upvotes and 81 stars just got deleted [closed]
I had often referred to this question (for <10k) and last time I checked, it had 48 votes upvotes, 81 stars and 11 answers, with a total of over 100 upvotes.
Today, after the question was live for ...
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People abusing deleting questions?
I was looking at the deleted questions list today and came across about 20 questions all deleted by John Saunders, Gulzar and Mehrdad. Why === instead of == in PHP comparison? [closed] is just one ...
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Should popular questions be so easy to delete?
I was just looking through the recently deleted questions page, and I came across Music to listen to while coding.
Now, I don't think it was such a good question in the first place. Be that as it may, ...
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Would you delete these questions? Isn’t closing enough?
This question is mainly motivated by the following case, which I have just noticed on Stack Overflow:
Learning Python in one weekend (Snapshot)
Learning JavaScript in one weekend
The Python ...
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Remove Disciplined Badge
Disciplined Badge: Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher.
I don't see how this badge affects the community in a positive way, and it might be doing more harm to the community than good.
Even ...
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Can we get an official statement regarding career advice questions?
I'm looking at the following question:
Am I a dinosaur programmer?
It has 4 close votes (at the time of writing), and I've been waffling over whether or not to put in a 5th.
By convention, at least, ...
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Cap deletion votes at 20 for megaupvoted golden oldies
So I've been following this deletion discussion for some time now and I think I see a possible resolution.
A lot of the upset from "my stuff being deleted" appears to be the apparent unfairness of a ...
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Add a vote to convert a question to community wiki
As far as I know, the only ways for a question to get converted to a community wiki are:
The original poster converts it.
A mod converts it.
Could we get a vote for this, just like there are to ...
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Allow votes to lock a post
It's obvious that the deletions are getting out-of-hand, and we're losing good answers at a fast rate. How about making a new button lock after a post has been closed, and three or five votes can ...
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Fear of Closing
I'm now have trepidation about closing, since that's the first step to deletion, and we all know how that's been going. I have always tried to do my part to close questions that deserved it, but feel ...
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Extra votes to migrate lead to multiple posts
This (now deleted) SO question somehow ended up with 14 people voting to close and migrate it. For each extra vote, an extra copy of the question appeared to have been created on Meta (though they ...
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Shouldn't responsible/sensible deletion of (old) questions imply looking at related ones too?
Admittedly I promised myself to stay clean of the inherently difficult recent discussions regarding deletion of questions (e.g. Question deletions are getting out of hand and The Great Question ...
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An interesting test case for delete vote numbers
Consider https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6012373/recursion-adding-numbers/6012538#6012538.
It appears that the vast number of upvotes on a humorous answer push up the delete threshold on this ...
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Narrow "too broad" closing reason to the real problem - limit the answer count
The rationale behind closing questions as "too broad" is that:
There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer ...
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Deletion of legacy locked off-topic question on SO
I found this question that was most likely forgotten.
Could a mod delete it? Or am I being too picky?
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Post closed three times as duplicate? [closed]
I don't know if this is related to the multiple-migrate problems or the slow response problems but looking at the revision history of this question - makes me wonder - what the heck happened?
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