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I don't see why this should be related to rep.
– bjb568
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:49
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@bjb568 Seconded. This would be nice to have at any level.
– HDE 226868
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:51
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We don't need any more "view vote count" privileges.
– bjb568
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:51
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@bjb It was prophesied that this ability "would result in unbearable amounts of wailing, gnashing of teeth, meta complaints, Twitter rants, cats sleeping with dogs, CHAOS..." Restricting access to a small subset of users would mitigate that.
– user259867
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:56
@pizza There are many ways to define a small subset of users besides rep.
– bjb568
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:58
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I don't see what your age has to do... oh. Wait.
– Jon Ericson
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:58
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Even the 60-day window has generated a certain amount of noise from folks who absolutely cannot stand that their deleted posts are still in the system, regardless of visibility. I'd want to put a lot more thought into this before considering it.
– Shog9
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 0:11
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@Shog9 But those would be the folks relatively new to the system? By 30K or so, one has to get used to how deletion works.
– user259867
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 1:08
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One of the folks who soured me on it had 22K, @pizza - I'm skeptical.
– Shog9
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 2:21
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I strongly disagree with this proposal just because this really should be accessible to all users, and establishing it as a reputation privilege makes it less likely that that will ever happen. High-reputation users aren't the only ones who put lots of effort into posts and don't deserve to have them lost.
– Jeremy
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 5:51
If the deleted: searches are enabled, then this comes along with it but only for interested users: user:me deleted:? - So I'd simply rather have that enabled. Then those users who want to see their own deleted stuff can, and it doesn't appear on their private page.
– Pollyanna
Commented Apr 30, 2015 at 13:00
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Yes please. Deleted questions and answers to deleted questions.
– TylerH
Commented Jun 16, 2015 at 20:20
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@JonEricson This is now status-completed, because you implemented deleted:1 user:me
– wythagoras
Commented Dec 17, 2015 at 20:54
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@wythagoras you don't need the user:me, unless you have a diamond.
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 11:48
@ShadowWizard Just adding user:me for completeness sake, in case it once will change (i.e. that you can see all deleted posts)
– wythagoras
Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 11:55

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