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-45 votes
1 answer
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How fair is it for a moderator to decide alone to delete a post without any comment on why the post is deleted?

First off, I want to be clear this post is not against the moderator. Rather, I would like to know on what basis did the moderator delete the post single-handedly and how can you judge that the ...
krishnaacharyaa's user avatar
59 votes
2 answers
1k views

Why was my flag on a link-only answer declined?

I flagged this answer as Very Low Quality due to it being a link-only answer, since I thought it didn’t have any value if the link went dead. I am not complaining about the declined flag; I'm just ...
4b0's user avatar
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14 votes
1 answer
739 views

Why was this JSP answer deleted by a moderator?

I originally found a question I was looking for an answer to, and once I found the solution I added this answer. I then realised that question was a duplicate of an even older one, so I closed the ...
OrangeDog's user avatar
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-40 votes
1 answer
238 views

Make it mandatory for moderators to give reason for deleting a VALID, NON-spam/abusive/offensive answer

I feel when a moderator deletes an answer that someone worked hard to find the solution to and posts it, it is basic courtesy to let the answerer know why their time and effort have been nullified. ...
Chandradhar Koneti's user avatar
14 votes
1 answer
403 views

Why was this valid answer diamond-moderator-deleted?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/63313318/430766 The question asks for a problem involving numbers and this answer gives a valid solution, suggesting modulo instead of a loop. What's more, this is a new ...
bitmask's user avatar
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-22 votes
3 answers
556 views

On moderation, moderators, quality, value, and alienation

A few days ago I came across a question from Dec 2017, asking: I am getting this error "Unknown host 'dl.google.com' You may need to adjust the proxy settings in Gradle" in android studio 3....
desertnaut's user avatar
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-8 votes
2 answers
441 views

Why was my answer deleted by a moderator?

I answered this question: How to make thread sleep for 1 day? My answer was: You can make a Windows Task to run your application by delay It actually has 6 upvotes and 0 downvotes A moderator ...
Marco Salerno's user avatar
45 votes
1 answer
1k views

How can I restore an answer deleted by a ♦ moderator?

I answered Ignore NaN when adding input values in JavaScript And then realised there was a duplicate when the question was marked as such. I liked my answer and copied it to the duplicate https://...
mplungjan's user avatar
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9 votes
1 answer
537 views

Why was this comment-summary answer deleted?

I answered my question Haskell key input memory leak, but the answer was deleted. There was one other answer, which addressed only part of the question; the other part of the question was answered in ...
Hew Wolff's user avatar
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