Questions tagged [vote-to-delete]
The process by which high-reputation users and moderators can vote to delete a post from the site.
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Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when trying to retract a delete vote [duplicate]
There is an existing question about the same error but when trying to unfollow: Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when unfollowing posts. ...
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Clarify the values for delete/undelete votes on 10k tools page
There are items with delete/undelete votes on 10k tools page. But the values specified there are not clear:
Actually it's relate to number of votes already given (the first one), and the number of ...
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Possible bug with question deletion
I just tried casting a delete vote on a question. I was given an error because the question was a target of a duplicate closure. In addition, the question closed as a duplicate was later merged with ...
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How can a mod undelete a question if they have already cast an undelete vote before becoming a mod?
Assume that a user cast an undelete vote on a post. The user later became a mod and now wants to use their mod powers to undelete that post. How can they do so?
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The delete button doesn’t wait for confirmation on iOS
On iOS (Safari iOS 16.5), when I vote to delete a question or answer, an alert appears asking if I’m sure. However, the page refreshes out from under the alert, and the vote is recorded — in some ...
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"Delete this answered question?" dialog shows up but it's not my question
I just got shown the "Delete this answered question?" dialog for a question that isn't mine. I think (it's not easy to reproduce for testing) the circumstances that led to this were:
Try to ...
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Can OP see the list of users who voted for deletion on their question? [duplicate]
My question is simple: is it possible for OP to see the list of users who voted for deleting their question in the question's timeline?
If this answer is still correct, the OP can see the names of ...
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Users can vote to delete/undelete again if the question is reopened and closed again
About a year ago, a feature request to Restrict the delete/undelete vote privilege to once per post was implemented network-wide.
However, this restriction doesn't always apply. For example, the ...
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Has the warning/question about retracting delete votes been (intentionally) removed? [closed]
As far as I remember (and It's possible to retract and re-cast a delete vote on answers, contrary to the tooltip's advice confirms this) there used to be a warning/question whether to retract ...
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Allow moderators to view close and delete vote history
Currently, moderators cannot view anything in the "Votes" tab of the profile of other users.
Quite sensibly, we can't view individual up/down votes at all. However, the other four tabs (...
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Popup shown to authors attempting to delete answered questions is incorrectly shown to other delete voters, if there are no pending delete votes
When voting to delete this question I got the following popup message:
This appears to be the popup user's get when trying to delete their own answered question. I'm not the author of this question, ...
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It's possible to retract and re-cast a delete vote on answers, contrary to the tooltip's advice
When retracting a delete vote, the following popup is displayed:
To quote the text directly:
rpg.stackexchange.com says
Retract your vote to delete? You won't be able to vote again on this post.
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Make the "delete" button different when you already voted to delete
This is extremely annoying behaviour. If you've voted to delete a post and then you press the delete button again, you can now rescind that vote, but then you can't vote again!
Because the button is ...
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Make it clear in the moderator tools when a delete vote is retracted
(Origin of this request: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/371277/253521)
Users can now retract delete votes. Moderators can also see a second date entry on the timeline for retracted votes. However, ...
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Make the pop-up for retracting your delete vote different from the pop-up for casting it
When voting to delete a question one gets thrown a pop-up to confirm their choice. This is in the general style of your browser.
Since recently one is also able to retract their delete vote.
Today I ...
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