Questions tagged [deleted-answers]
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Does an answer to the problem instead of the question count as an answer?
If a user asks a question along the lines of
I would like to do X with Y. How can I make Y do this?"
is it appropriate to answer with an alternative or more straightforward way to do X, even if it ...
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flagging decisions: not an answer
I just had my first look at the flag queue. And, of course, I want this tool not to lose any quality by my contribution. And now even the first post I am shown turns out to be difficult:
Linux Ubuntu ...
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Voting indicator state is not reinstated when trying to remove a vote on a deleted post
If you try to remove a vote on a deleted post, you will get the "this post has been deleted" popup and the vote count will be reset back to what it was before you tried to rescind your vote, but the ...
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Deleted Answers not Disappearing
In my question, on the main U&L site: Check if SSH is Enabled or Disabled in Solaris 11, I have deleted my own answer, but it hasn't disappeared. Why has it not gone? It has gone red though.
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Delete link-only answers
A relevant share of the answers which appear in the flag queue are flagged because they contain little more than the link.
Then the usual suspects jump in and add the comments like:
While this ...
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Delete answers completely
Why it's not possible to delete an answer completely?
I'm embarrassed of some of them, sometimes for being hasty about answering and after seconds or minutes I realize that I'm (very) wrong.
I know ...
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Why is deleting answers discouraged?
I deleted two answers of mine, because after some thinking I came to the conclusion those answers were not very good and/or not really my field of expertise:
how to allocate more storage for home ...
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Is stating that OP's technique is doomed considered not an answer?
I have recently answered a question Should variables be quoted when executed? Basically, my answer stated that executing variables is a doomed technique, that no amount of quoting will cover all the ...
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Did both of these answers have to be deleted?
I posted identical answers to these two questions:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown/375329#375329
https://unix.stackexchange.com/...
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Why was my answer deleted?
I wrote the following answer:
Contrary to what the moderator wrote, without any intention of critiquing or requesting clarification, I wrote that answer because -bash: syntax error near unexpected ...
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When is a post deleted?
When is a post deleted, either by the system automatically or by moderators manually?
In particular, when a post is deleted by the system automatically, what is the criterion for taking the action? ...
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Answer the question title or the question body?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/247779/44992
While not answering the question posed in the title of the question, it does address a possible cause of the actual problem that the poster was actually ...
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How can I delete an answer which I posted in error, which has already been deleted by a reviewer?
I was fiddling trying to get uMatrix working and accidentally posted what should have been a comment to another answer, but was actually posted as an answer. It was noticed by a reviewer and deleted ...
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Request for c&p of deleted answer and comments
I am not sure what caused the deletion of (what I believe was) Space left on Linux RAM/TMP,FS, but there was a link in there that now seems to be dead, presuming I remember it correctly.
Any chance ...
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What are the reasons for this answer being deleted?
A couple of days ago I left an answer to a question.
The question was not a good one.
It was extremely broad and non specific.
However, the core of it boiled down to two things: how do I use GNU/Linux,...
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