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Tagged with deleted-questions bug
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Don't show deleted spam posts on the 'Recently viewed posts' section of the home page
When viewing the homepage, I can see a spam post under Recently viewed posts. Admittedly, it was recently viewed, but considering I don't have 10k, it's not very useful to include it (well, yes, using ...
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Staging ground question left in a half-deleted state
There was recently a run-of-the-mill AI generated / potential spam seed question in the Staging Ground, Mouse Polling Rate. It was deleted by Machavity, but it was somehow left in a strange half-...
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Comments on deleted Staging Ground posts appear undeleted to 10k+ users
When a post on the Staging Ground is deleted, the background coloring suggests that the comments underneath have not been deleted. This is unexpected and curious, but also, in the case of some recent ...
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Flag pop-up does not work in deleted question
I am trying to access the flag pop-up in this deleted question, in order to retract a custom flag that is no longer needed (since the question is now deleted); but every time I try I get the following ...
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When calculating post percentage by tag, deleted posts are included in the numerator, but not the denominator
pyspark tag posts represent 117% of all this user's posts:
Stats:
In user's profile it's seen that he has 0 answers and 6 questions. But in total it makes 7 posts, as seen above.
Apparently, the ...
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Do dangling answers to a question, gone due to moderation, need deletion?
This is in the Low quality answers review queue:
https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/32820557
The question itself is no longer available.
So I clicked "Recommended deletion". ...
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Many posts deleted during roomba operation show up in search results [duplicate]
This is an extension/supplement of the issue reported in Some deleted posts show up in search results
I happened across a search earlier today which happened to contain several of these posts. When ...
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Search brings up deleted results again [duplicate]
This seems to be a recurrence of a known issue:
Some deleted posts show up in search results
The advice given there is to flag for moderator attention. However, that does not seem practical, as I do ...
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Typo in help: s/signpoint/signpost
As pointed out in this recent question, the help page about deleted questions contains a weird non-word.
Over time, closed questions that are not useful as signpoints to other questions may also be ...
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Community-deleted/Roomba'd questions are sometimes still showing/counting in the questions page for a given tag [duplicate]
While participating in the burnination of downloadfile, I took a look at all remaining questions at one point, and was returned with the following result when searching using the query [downloadfile] ...
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The "deleted:1" operator in search does not work well for Teams posts [closed]
When searching for deleted questions I posted with the query user:me is:q deleted:1, the deleted:1 part is respected for content on the main site, but I get all my questions (not just deleted ones) ...
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Why is this question that was deleted by the Community user not deleted?
While browsing the annotated posts list on Stack Overflow, I saw this question which is currently locked and occasionally serving as a Triage audit.
The thing is, in the timeline, there's a deletion ...
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The delete option warns about question bans even they don't exist on MSO
When I went to delete a post:
We do not recommend deleting questions with answers because doing so deprives future readers of this knowledge. See "I've thought better of my question; can I ...
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Deleting question on SO for teams warns of question ban that won't happen [closed]
When deleting a question on SO for Teams:
The message is wrong: question bans don't exist on Teams.
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On deleted questions it is not clear if you're meant to edit or ask a new question
To be clear, I am not asking about what to do when I see "This question already has answers here", I'm saying that the message you get when editing a closed deleted question seems to ...
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