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Why my question got deleted?

The question was deleted by the system because your account was deleted by a moderator, because it was flagged as likely to be a user that we are having trouble with. This user is creating multiple ...
iandotkelly's user avatar
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Why is my answer on this question deleted?

I'm seeing three separate but closely-related issues here: you think your answer was deleted unfairly, you think your question was closed unfairly, and you believe that the moderator responsible for ...
F1Krazy's user avatar
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Why questions get deleted?

Those are all questions that have been closed for more than 9 days without any improvements into reopenability. They are thus eligible for cleanup as, being off-topic, they don't provide any further ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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8 votes
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Answer deleted by moderator

Napoleon has explained perfectly why your answer was deleted, but since he's a mod and you're asking for the community opinion, I'd like to draw your attention to this Meta question discussing your ...
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Answer deleted by moderator

First of all, the DCEU tag was added to the question since that is what the question is asking about by the mere fact it was asked on this site and this isn't Comics.SE but Movies & TV. You simply ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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8 votes

Should we encourage swifter deletion of bad ID questions?

If the vote does go against banning them, I think this plan has merit, at least to help address the problems with the site image that Napoleon Wilson mentioned on the post about banning id questions. ...
Torisuda's user avatar
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Failure of Questions to delete

It is sad to hear that you want to leave this site and I'd urge you to try and bring whatever concerns you have to meta or chat for them to possibly be resolved in order to not have a valuable ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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7 votes

Failure of Questions to delete

The real question is why are you deleting your account and what can be done to resolve the issues that you've experienced leading up to this point? If this is something that we can help with you could ...
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6 votes
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Do deleted questions affect reputation?

According to this related answer on Meta Stack Exchange the reputation gained from the votes on a deleted post is not removed if it's at least 60 days old and has a score of at least 3. Reputation ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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5 votes

My posts disappeared from the site

At the beginning of 2018 the site went through a scope adjustment that finally retired identification questions. As part of that there also was a cleanup phase of the existing baggage of old questions ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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4 votes
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Why are ID questions not removed immediately?

They will automatically be removed after 9 days, provided that they are closed and don't have a positive score. There's an automated process for this nicknamed Roomba, no need to bother the ♦ ...
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My post got deleted without any explanation or feedback

Your question was closed because questions asking to identify specific movies, TV shows, or episodes are off-topic here, and have been for about two years now. It's unfortunate that nobody left a ...
F1Krazy's user avatar
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4 votes
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Where to find deleted questions?

Unless you have access to the Moderator Tools which comes at 10k reputation, you will have to resort to that link. Now "Deleted Recent Questions" or "Deleted Recent Answers" will only show the posts ...
A J's user avatar
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4 votes
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Why was this movie identification question deleted so quickly?

Those questions are prone to get deleted any time once they're closed (and they're in turn getting closed as fast as possible). In fact often the avid users on this site vote to delete them themselves ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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3 votes
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Identification Question Cleanup: Deleting old questions

Ok, this is done! I've deleted a grand total of 3,726 questions. The list is here — if you see something that was deleted but shouldn't have been, or something that wasn't but should have been, lemme ...
JNat's user avatar
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2 votes
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Why is my question gone?

The question was closed by the community on May 28th for not sufficing the site's quality standards for ID questions. Then it was deleted on June 9th for being closed more than 9 days without ...
Napoleon Wilson's user avatar
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