Timeline for When is it acceptable to delete a post?
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| Aug 29, 2023 at 0:46 | comment | added | Kevin B | i don't generally consider merging a thing, but it does exist. Most answers worth existing are tailored to the post their on and won't fit well with a merge (and usually are already covered on the target anyway) | |
| Aug 29, 2023 at 0:23 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | Wow, that's way out of date, though. Is "merging" even still a thing? | |
| Aug 28, 2023 at 23:34 | comment | added | Kevin B | Fair, kinda like programming questions hitting mso or mse. On slower stacks, deletion becomes a bit more useful IMO, given things sit on the front page for longer. | |
| Aug 28, 2023 at 23:23 | comment | added | Laurel | I reserve my delete votes (on sites where I have them) for questions that have missed the site scope by miles. For example, I deleted a question about Wendy's — very off-topic where it was asked and also very off-topic on SO, but not quite spam. | |
| Aug 28, 2023 at 20:58 | comment | added | Kevin B | I can't even come up with an example for hasty deletion being necessary. There's several cases where deletion itself is necessary, but hasty? Any situation that needs immediate action needs a red flag instead. Everything else isn't really time sensitive. Though I would argue, any case where the roomba won't delete it and it should be deleted (typo question with upvoted accepted answer) there'd be no harm in casting a delete vote, but there's no real need to rush to get 2 others to vote too. There is no harm to prevent, no impending crash, | |
| Aug 28, 2023 at 20:17 | history | edited | zcoop98 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2023 at 20:13 | vote | accept | cocomac | ||
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| Aug 28, 2023 at 19:53 | history | answered | Kevin B | CC BY-SA 4.0 |