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Why was the previous Code of Conduct FAQ (and all answers) removed?
(Disclaimer: I do have an answer on that question, too ... and I am sad to see the 500 upvotes gone. But my issue is a different one.)
That is exactly the opposite of what Stack Exchange Inc. should ...
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Why was the previous Code of Conduct FAQ (and all answers) removed?
In my not so humble opinion, SE is making a massive mistake deleting the thread.
I agree that semantically, historical locking might not be appropriate. However, effectively it's exactly what we need....
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
I would assume that Sara's old posts are gone because they contained libel against Monica. We know there's an agreement. Things that could be legally actionable in such an agreement include removal of ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
The obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer but…
The official Stack Exchange announcement, entitled An Update to our Community and an Apology, was deleted 18 hours ago. Possibly SE lawyers advised ...
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Why was the previous Code of Conduct FAQ (and all answers) removed?
As the top voted answer owner on the question, it makes me incredibly concerned that the question was deleted without obvious warning. Combined with the fact that my (semi controversial) answer had ...
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Why was the previous Code of Conduct FAQ (and all answers) removed?
For those that lack 10K reputation, and thus are unable to see deleted questions, the Wayback Machine is a great tool.
(M)SE, and more specifically the post mentioned was frequently captured. The ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
For me it looks like SE is trying to rewrite the history in the hope that people will forget about this big mistake. At least for new users and those who hasn't heard about this situation at all.
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Why was the previous Code of Conduct FAQ (and all answers) removed?
It doesn't make any difference if the deletion is what would normally be done (and I might even dispute that); that it was done now, in the current climate, is unconsidered and only bound to feed into ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
I would not be surprised at all if the previous statement and Stack Exchange's answer to Monica's statement on Mi Yodeya Meta were deleted as part of the terms of the agreement. Monica's statement ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
I agree with the other answers that most likely, that deletion happened due to the legal agreement between Monica and SE Inc. mentioned in the question.
If so, we might never know for sure.
And that ...
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Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted
We've been slowly moving towards completing this request over the years and have made incremental improvements to allow users to see content of their own that was deleted. The TL;DR here is that we ...
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Why is the script for deletion called Roomba?
A Roomba is a brand of automatic robotic vacuum cleaner for cleaning floors.
The first robotic vacuum cleaner was the Electrolux Trilobite in 2001. The iRobot Roomba was released in 2002. Many brands ...
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A question should not be deleted by the user deletion algorithm if it has upvoted answers
So... We've been talking about this internally for as long as I can remember. I was sitting on a call as a newly-hired part-timer, in my attic, arguing over this.
I get the intent: a deleted user is ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
In an attempt to keep this conspiracy-theory free:
The new official messaging from Sara Chipps is likely one that was reached through the result of legal action/mediation. This would then be the new ...
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Why was the previous Code of Conduct FAQ (and all answers) removed?
I don't know why I but I can tell you my reaction. Next time I will think twice before devoting as much time to write an answer.
Writing and rewriting to cut the cruft and leave the essential message....
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Why does it incorrectly say I lost 8,000 rep?
Luckily, you lost "only" ~800 rep, not 8,000
The post was less than 60 days old, which is why any reputation was lost
From How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does ...
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What should I do if I find the answer to an old question of mine that was automatically deleted as abandoned?
It's better to pursue undeletion (with edits). Deletions are designed to be reversible. There's an "undelete" link right there, which implies that it's meant to be used when the problems that led to ...
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Why did this uploaded image disappear?
The question was flag deleted as spam or offensive. Because many posts that are spam or rude have problematic images (or people are using our image hosting to host images of themselves that get flag ...
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RemoveDeadQuestions should not apply to Meta posts
I agree; there's a big difference between +0/-15 and +10/-25 (or +100/-101). Controversial is not the same as uniformly rejected. Sometimes the controversy might not even be about the question ...
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Why can I not edit a self-deleted question?
We have found a form of abuse that is very difficult for the system to counter:
Spammer writes a post (not particularly spammy)
It is immediately deleted by them
Spammer edits the deleted post to ...
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Could I be notified when a question I answered is deleted?
I would generally be in favor of this. Deletions are less frequent than closures, so we shouldn't need to worry about "notification overload".
A happy side effect of this could be alerting people who ...
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Why was a moved question deleted? Moderator to whom deletion is attributed claims they didn't do it
I checked the logs on this to make sure, and did a bit of experimentation to see if I could reproduce.
The moderator who deleted this was handling flags from the mod dashboard (the post you reference ...
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What should I do if I find the answer to an old question of mine that was automatically deleted as abandoned?
Monica's advice on fixing the question is solid - anything you can do to correct whatever caused it to not get the necessary attention the first time around is worth doing.
In particular, take this ...
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How could a question require 18 people to be finally deleted?
Because the total delete votes needed scale based on score.
Doing a quick history score calculation for that question just before it was deleted gives me this:
up | down | score | est. voters needed ...
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Changes to bounty rules: removal of double rep-retention, blocking of owner deletion
Personly I think a question should not be able to be deleted by the author if the author has put a bounty on the question (regardless of the awarded state).
If I do the work to provide an answer, I ...
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How do you view deleted questions?
Use deleted:1 in your search to see your own deleted posts, assuming you have over 10k rep.
From the 10k rep privilege:
Viewing deleted posts
You now have privileged access to posts that have ...
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
(Totally posted in my role as a grumpy regular user who wasn't all too happy about much that happened. The following post may not reflect the views of the moderation team or anyone else other than me.)...
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Has there been a recent change in the ability to vote to delete again, after a post was undeleted?
The CMs have no way to manually override deletion permissions on a per-post basis - short of doing what any mod could do and locking the post - which leaves a post notice explaining the action.
As ...
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