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Who controls 'accepting of answers' for questions of deleted users [duplicate]

I find several questions like mentioned here: Question of deleted user shown The question OP is not clickable (and often has a name like user123456) and is probably not existing anymore. These ...
Sextus Empiricus's user avatar
7 votes
1 answer
101 views

Does deleting an account uncheck the accepted answers?

In my opinion the accepted answer should permanently stick as only the original question submitter has the ability to accept.
user598527's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
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Accepted answers without accept-votes show misleading "loading" tooltip

At present, accept-votes are transferred to Community when the question owner gets deleted. But this was not the case in the past, which is why Stack Overflow has over 15000 accepted answers without ...
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37 votes
1 answer
309 views

I am broken: post-undelete reputation issues

Specifically FAO Tim Post I guess, but this is probably going to relate to any StackExchange account that has previously been deleted and then put back together by the kind people at StackExchange. I ...
Flyk's user avatar
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-11 votes
1 answer
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Show highest voted answer at top when OP has a deleted account

My highest voted answer on stackoverflow has taken me a little by surprise and it is currently this one: Javascript global error handling If you visit the link, you'll notice that the OP has since ...
Sam's user avatar
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5 votes
2 answers
142 views

What should happen to questions asked by non-existent users with answers that score higher than the accepted answer?

Here's the scenario: Bob asks a question on Stack Overflow. Bob gets a few answers and selects the one that helps him the most. Bob's account gets deleted. Another (considerably better) answer is ...
uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN's user avatar
4 votes
0 answers
132 views

Purging a user account does not unaccept its accepted answers

There seems to be some magical wand movement that permits mods to send a user account and all its posts into oblivion.1 Normally, according to Shog9's answer to Deleted accepted answer pinned as top ...
Dennis's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
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Is the reputation given for accepting an answer removed, when the account of the answer deleted?

I have noticed that for this answer, the reputation shows me this. Does that mean the reputation given from accepting an answer is removed when the account used to answer is deleted? I tried ...
avpaderno's user avatar
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16 votes
2 answers
347 views

Do we lose rep for an accepted answer if the OP account is deleted? [duplicate]

I appear to have the accepted answer to this question, and a rep audit on 7th December showed the +15 rep. But an audit today no longer shows this acceptance, even though the green tick displays when ...
martin clayton's user avatar
-7 votes
2 answers
385 views

Allow mod accept for deleted users [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Moderators accepting answers on user’s behalf after a certain time period Sometimes there's a question with an unaccepted answer that was asked by a currently inactive ...
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