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Why was my question deleted
I was one of those who voted to delete the question. I saw it first when it was already on hold, and if I had seen it before, I would probably be one of the close-voters too.
Yes, you could very well ...
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Accepted
Can/should this question be prevented from deletion?
Clear the migration history and let the community decide
A moderator can prevent the Q & A from being auto-deleted by clearing the migration history. This would make it appear as if the migration ...
Paul WhiteMod
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7
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Deleting useless content from the site
If you sort the closed questions (link in question) by votes and jump to the last page you can look at the worst of the worst.
If you wrote an existing answer example for -7 question just delete ...
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I don't have delete option under my question in stackexchange
You weren't able to delete your question:
How to execute the following commands at once in ubuntu using postgresql? (original title)
...because you are using a cookie-based (unregistered) account.
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Paul WhiteMod
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User was removed -- lose 810 points
From What does “user was removed” mean and why did my reputation change because of it?
The reputation adjustment always occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user has cast a very large ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Deleting useless content from the site
I love the idea of getting rid of low-quality questions that have limited utility for future visitors.
Per our discussion in The Heap, closed low-quality questions are unlikely to help, and in fact ...
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Can/should this question be prevented from deletion?
For the opposition: Don't delete it.
People are going to Do Dumb Things when they can. When they can't Do Dumb Things they want to do, they're going to try and find a workaround. Smart People™️ ...
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Deleting useless content from the site
I'll share my thoughts on discussion points 4 and 5:
For those of you with the power to vote to delete, what stops you
using these votes?
Any other concerns?
I want to spend most of my ...
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Deleting useless content from the site
Adding this as a point of view (not necessarily mine) to allow people to vote on it:
Closed questions with answers should be preserved because there is a chance that the answer might help someone ...
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I don't have delete option under my question in stackexchange
I'm not sure which question you are talking about, but both your previous question have an upvoted and accepted answer.
From the help center Why and how are some questions deleted?
Users can ...
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Cleaning up rejected migrations
Since there were no objections, I have now completed this work manually.
Future rejected migrations will be handled (mostly) automatically.
Starting this coming weekend, these should be deleted ...
Paul WhiteMod
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Can/should this question be prevented from deletion?
This doesn't seem to be an "example of scenarios we as DBAs work hard to prevent". It is most likely an example of a person having not a slightest idea what he/she is doing on a local workstation; ...
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