Yesterday I have 287 answers in my profile, today 284. I don't know which answers disappeared, the only thing I can say is that I lost some reputation in functional analysis tag. What has happened? I often put a lot of efforts in my answers, so I don't want them to be deleted without my permission.
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$\begingroup$ :Same thing has happened with me. I do not know exactly what's going on. $\endgroup$– Mhenni BenghorbalCommented Oct 7, 2012 at 20:57
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$\begingroup$ Heh. This happened to me today, too. I can live with a minor reputation hit, but it's still very irritating. $\endgroup$– Rick DeckerCommented Oct 7, 2012 at 23:45
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2$\begingroup$ Here is an example of deleting a post of mine by some users of this website without my permission. $\endgroup$– Mhenni BenghorbalCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 4:04
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4$\begingroup$ @Mhenni, the person asked whether one could define X as YZW, and you noted that there are already perfectly good definitions of X. That doesn't actually answer the question, so its deletion should not come as a surprise. $\endgroup$– Gerry MyersonCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 4:35
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2$\begingroup$ There seems to be a recent epidemic of disappearances. Is there some sort of explanation of that? $\endgroup$– André NicolasCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 6:05
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$\begingroup$ @AndréNicolas, perhaps this is worth a meta question. $\endgroup$– Glen WheelerCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 9:13
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4$\begingroup$ I think the reason is that LVK has deleted his account. It is a big sorrow - he contributed this site a lot! $\endgroup$– NorbertCommented Oct 8, 2012 at 12:02
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An account was deleted. This deletes questions with a negative vote total, so deletes the corresponding answers.
For future reference, here is a relevant section of the terms of service (emphasis added):
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$\begingroup$ Could you tell which answers were deleted? $\endgroup$– NorbertCommented Oct 7, 2012 at 8:06
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$\begingroup$ I don't know. I looked through some of your deleted answers but they all seem to have been deleted by you. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 7, 2012 at 8:15
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26$\begingroup$ Perhaps it would be worth a feature request that questions with a negative vote total be retained if they have answers with positive score. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 7, 2012 at 12:05
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$\begingroup$ Do 15K users have the ability to see such deleted questions (and the associated answers)? I couldn't find them. $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 23:42
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1$\begingroup$ They have the ability to see them, but whether they have the ability to find them is another matter... $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 9, 2012 at 0:28
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I agree Henning Makholm that if a question got an answer with a positive score, it will stay on the website independently of the score of the question. It's not for the reputation points, 
even if I lost a lot of points, as it's just an arbitrary quantity.
The major problem is that for example we provide a long answer, or we spent a lot of time to think on it or type it, and there will be no trace of it. A good thing would be to upvote the question, but sometimes we can forget, or don't give the upvote because there was something unclear in the question (and in this case we wait for a clarification, but it may never come, or latter but we don't see it).
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8$\begingroup$ Alas, this is one of many poor design decisions in the SE software. We also lose many valuable votes when a user is deleted. That is why I always try to encourage users to consider actions other than deletion. Unfortunately that does not always work (and not all moderators support such efforts). $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 7, 2012 at 21:59
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3$\begingroup$ This decision of SE design makes me mad! $\endgroup$– NorbertCommented Oct 7, 2012 at 22:11
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273 points this time! Several accounts were deleted in the past couple of weeks, costing me 10 or 15 or so points each time. It must have been quite a prolific poster. But the poster's identity is secret, if I understand correctly.
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I just got dinked for 86 points because of a deleted user or users. It came in two stages, a -56, which then got incremented to -86.
