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For questions about questions or answers that are deleted.

9 votes
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Flagging deleted post or clicking on inbox item fails and brings up an error 500 on browser console

I mistakenly told a new user that their post was not supposed to be here. I messed up. The user self deleted, which while in their credit, is because I made a mistake. This isn't fair I'd like to make ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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2 answers
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Why is a user's reputation re-calculated when one of their posts is deleted?

When a user's question or answer gets deleted, their reputation gets re-calculated. Like if my answer gets an upvote, and then gets deleted, I lose my ten rep that I gained from the upvote. I guess I ...
security_paranoid's user avatar
48 votes
2 answers
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Are Mods on all sites aware of and able to handle the mass defacing/deletion attempts by users unhappy with the OpenAI announcement?

Phrasing it in the form of a question, since I really don't know the answer, but there's a pretty big issue going on right now with users (at least 20 so far that I've seen) defacing and/or deleting ...
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How do I remove my contributions from Stack Exchange, in the event of a license violation?

Stack Exchange is now partnering with OpenAI. While the company has received a commitment from OpenAI that attribution will be maintained, and the company has not relicensed our contributions (as of ...
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5 votes
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Being able to easily see how many deleted versus non-deleted posts I acted on

I am often curious how many total questions I have closed/reopened/edited/etc regardless which ones were later deleted. You can view these statistics on your profile, and selecting the desired tab, to ...
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15 votes
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As a moderator, "Delete" in the review queues clears custom flags that you may not have seen

Outside of the queue, it makes sense that a moderator deletion would clear any custom flags, since the wafflebar is at the bottom showing all the pending flags and a flag count for all flags. In ...
Laurel's user avatar
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6 votes
1 answer
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Why can I not see my approved suggested edits on posts that have been deleted?

I recently noticed that I lost 2 points of reputation. I clicked on the reputation tab to see why and I came to the conclusion it was connected with a post that I had edited (as a <2K user on SO) ...
PeterJames's user avatar
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Deleted posts showing in the Earned Bounties list

Normally, one can only search their own deleted posts or they need a direct link to the deleted post. However, I've stumbled on a case where in the list of earned bounties on someone else's profile ...
Adriaan's user avatar
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4 votes
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Incorrectly encoded message about editing deleted post

An attempt to edit a deleted post by a direct link (when you don't have enough reputation to see deleted posts, or you're an owner of deleted post), e.g., here gives a raw text page stated: This post ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
14 votes
3 answers
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Are moderators now allowed to delete ChatGPT-generated posts?

I've flagged some ChatGPT-generated posts (in June) on Stack Overflow. Recently they've been reviewed, and most of my flags were helpful. Then the posts I flagged were deleted. Are moderators now ...
Petəíŕd the Wizard's user avatar
8 votes
0 answers
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Add support to the API to do all non-moderator actions that a user can do

It does not appear that the API supports viewing of deleted posts, which is what a 10k user or moderator can do on a site. Although I don't expect diamond moderator actions to be exposed, I would ...
Thomas Owens's user avatar
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11 votes
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Ability for users without the moderator tools privilege to see deleted posts they reviewed doesn't work for "Share feedback" reviews

In the review queue history, when you open a review task you performed, you can always see the content of the post, even if that post is now deleted and you don't have the privilege to view deleted ...
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7 votes
0 answers
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Duplicate "This post has been deleted and is no longer viewable" banner when reviewing a first answer

When reviewing a first answer, you only see the answer and its comments on the 'Answer' tab; nothing related to the question. However, if both the question and the answer get deleted while reviewing, ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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8 votes
1 answer
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Please provide communities with custom post-delete-reasons as a moderation tool

Communities (or rather their moderators as representatives of us) can currently set three custom post-close-reasons — in the same manner, I would welcome custom post-delete-reasons as a moderation ...
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4 votes
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Anonymous user can see deleted post in Suggested edits queue [duplicate]

If a post that has a suggested edit in review gets deleted, anyone can still see the post via the suggested edit, including anonymous users. Is it expected behavior that anonymous users (not logged in)...
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