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17 questions linked to/from What are the merits, if there is any, of deleting (correctly) answered questions in the main site of MSE?
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Does the moderator violate the EoQS?
This recent question on the main site: If whenever $|x-a|<\delta$, $|y-a|<\delta$ then $|f(x)-f(y)|<\epsilon$, is this equiv. to $f$ cont. at $c$ then $f$ cont. on some interval around $c$?
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Is there a convention for whether or not you should vote to close old questions?
This post from 2014 was closed today. I saw it in the 'close votes' queue, but skipped it because I don't know what the convention is (if any) for posts that are so old. If that post was posted ...
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Deleting questions with upvotes, or with upvoted answers.
Sometimes, poorly formulated questions contain enough information to answer them and, more importantly, for the community to find them interesting enough. Then I found that there is a race between ...
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Can we please STOP closing and deleting old posts with answers?
This is a follow-up for a recent questions of mine:
What are the merits, if there is any, of deleting (correctly) answered questions in the main site of MSE?
I have noticed recently that quite a few ...
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Why are questions with no downvotes deleted?
I can understand that questions with downvotes or closing votes are closed since they might not meet MSE quality standards. However, why should "upvoted" questions with upvoted answers be deleted? ...
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Can we please be more generous to elementary beginners?
This question: Given that $\arctan(1/5) + \arctan(1/8) = \arctan(1/p)$, how to find the value of $p$? (now deleted again) was originally closed as "off-topic".
Here is the original title:
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What happens if you flag a question with bounty?
Suppose someone post a problem statement question so no attempts on the problem and it also happens that no one flag the question neither so it won't be on hold nor closed and somebody else (could be ...
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Kafkaesque question closure(s)
This question seems about to be closed (4 votes currently), because it is (supposedly) "not about math as defined in the help center."
Can anyone explain this to me (if there is an explanation)? I ...
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Why would a question with an upvoted and accepted answer be deleted?
This is a question on MSE which I had answered a month or so ago. It was an interesting question and it took me some effort to write the answer. The answer got upvoted twice and accepted.
Two weeks ...
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Historical lock for preserving old, low quality questions
The question Compute $ \lim\limits_{n \to \infty }\sin \sin \dots\sin n$ was recently closed (then reopened and historical-locked). I agree that, by modern standards, the question is not a good one. ...
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Is it okay to re-ask a deleted question?
Greetings I went trough some questions here on meta and didn't found something similar so I hope there is no problem with asking here. I'll try to keep it short.
I noticed that some questions got ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 07/2018 - 12/2020) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be posted as an answer below (one request per answer)....
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Deleting questions with answers
A few days ago I posted an answer on this question. After that the original poster deleted it. I undeleted it because it is a terrible idea to delete questions which people have taken the time to ...
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What is going on with undeletion lately?
Some questions have been undeleted that... frankly, shouldn't have been. 10k users can see the whole list here, but here they are for the pleasure of everyone else:
https://math.stackexchange.com/...
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Under what circumstances is it appropriate to delete a question that has received a good answer?
I would like to have a discussion about the following question:
When is it appropriate to delete a question which has been closed as "missing context or details," but which has generated ...