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How to delete sixth answer from stackoverflow of our own [duplicate]

Today I was deleting some of my answers on StackOverflow. After deleting 5 answers it started giving me an error stating that : You have already deleted 5 of your own posts today; further deletes ...
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Why I am not allowed to delete more than 5 answers in a day [duplicate]

I want to cleanup my answer due to whatever reasons. I get an error something like I have already deleted 5 post...... Why is this restriction.
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Formatting Sandbox

Notes: Answers will occasionally be moved to the Sandbox archive when there are too many of them. When using them to report bugs, keep an eye on the post. You may also want to take a look at the ...
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How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?

What circumstances can cause a question or answer to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? How can a post be deleted? When can't I delete my own post? Can I still see my post even after it's ...
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The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide

I noticed that I can only perform certain actions such as commenting a finite number of times in a given period of time. Obviously, rate limiting is in place to prevent accidental misuse or ...
48 votes
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Are Mods on all sites aware of and able to handle the mass defacing/deletion attempts by users unhappy with the OpenAI announcement?

Phrasing it in the form of a question, since I really don't know the answer, but there's a pretty big issue going on right now with users (at least 20 so far that I've seen) defacing and/or deleting ...
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Slight modification to the "suspected deletion vandalism" algorithm

Several times in the past few days I've seen the Community user on SO flag a user with the following message: Possible vandalism of own posts; multiple deletions in a short time Each time that I'...
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What actions are rate-limited, and why? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide I've seen a number of time delay notifications on the sites. E.g.: you can only comment every x seconds What are all the situations that ...
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Link rot "request for edit": How a user will be able to edit his/her own post when confronted with the "Edit limit"?

The question "Does Stack Exchange Crawl Web Sites?" mentions: all being planned at the moment, in a nutshell, community will add a "special comment" to the post asking the creator to fix it, it ...
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Please allow us to delete our old, subpar, unvoted answers

I'm trying to clean up my old obsolete and/or substandard answers when I run into this: "You have already deleted 5 of your own posts today; further deletes are blocked" I found conflicting ...
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Should the 5 edit limit prevent you from hitting edit in the first place?

I was editing some of my questions and answers today on gaming.SE and when I pressed "Save Edits" on the most recent I got the message "You have already edited 5 of your own posts today [...] further ...
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Any chance for reconsideration of the 5 deletes/day limit?

I know this has been asked already, but that ended with I'll see about what we can do about possibly lightening the load without harming its intent And the limit is still in place. My ...
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Higher own answer deletion limit for zero or negative score answers [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Please allow us to delete our old, subpar, unvoted answers I started cleaning up some of my old answers that are bad or that have the same information that's present in the ...
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