EDIT: This is wrongly tagged a duplicate as it deals with clarifying and finding out information about penalties for the deletion and closing process, a topic that has spawned much confusion and past discussion.
I'd like to know please what are the all the exact penalties if I delete questions ...
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M I totally agree, this is not NAA. It even kinda solves the problem. It's just a really, really, bad answer, so it doesn't "Look okay". I ended up just skipping.
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@Kate Gregory, I will add that bit of information because as I said multiple times, I asked for specifics
is it permitted to discuss closing threads or duplicate threads in here, anyone know?
@ShadowWizard if you're the Shadow Wizard who marked my thread as duplicate, I wish to make a note I believe it's mislabeled as such and have stated so in the edit on the thread
EDIT: This is wrongly tagged a duplicate as it deals with clarifying and finding out information about penalties for the deletion and closing process, a topic that has spawned much confusion and past discussion.
I'd like to know please what are the all the exact penalties if I delete questions ...
@Shadow Wizard marked it as duplicate, which I don't see as matching because the question is as broad in scope as the topic. there are numerous other questions regarding bits and pieces of the topic as I've proved in the links on the post, if it's a duplicate of one it's a duplicate of all of them.
But what I'm asking is a standalone question that attempts to clarify all that scattered info out there, hence I do not believe it is correctly classed a duplicate.
in a comment of his own, he contradicts his own dup... but I seem to have stumbled on a taboo topic here inadvertently, judging by the controversy this has raised
I don't think it's a taboo topic or anything like that.
On second thought
Not much to say. Two possible penalties: automatic post ban, which is affected both by deleting own posts or others deleting your posts, and the second kind of "penalty" is possible account suspension if you delete many of your own posts which had upvotes. Anna covers the first in the linked dupe, I might add answer about the second later when having some time — Shadow Wizardyesterday
I'm the newbie so I'm not acquainted with all this stuff yet, not going to get myself in further trouble as sometimes these things have a way of playing out.. I've made a note on the post, I'll sit this one out
with all the info scattered out there, it needs a single place where users like myself can reference it without 2 hours of digging. If someone where to place that info in another easily accessible place, I'd have no problem if the question was deleted
The first is when your questions are bad @xCare, so you delete them to get rep back, or they get moderated and deleted. The second is usually when your posts are really good, but you went crazy and went deleting some (or many) of your answers.
yes, pity. the comments section are a tad negative and I did get the impression of being trolled for a bit. negative comments regardless and certainly off topic
@xCare This is meta. Things are way different from SO. You'd see much more humor, satire, sarcasm etc. in the posts and comments.
I'm sorry, but you are just being argumentative and adding absolutely nothing useful to this discussion about the topic at hand. Flagged. — xCareyesterday
Oh boy. That's not how you communicate. Not in meta at least.
Hey @xCare your post's comments are better than many I've seen here. :P
Well as a newcomer with the first taste of controversy here, I think I did as good as I could. I felt the guy was practically trolling me and I wanted to avoid him as quickly as possible. I'll let you guys or whoever is in charge of those things handle the rest
@inɒzɘmɒЯ.A.M thanks. wish the voters saw it like that lol
I still am yet to see some controversy though. Everyone seems to agree with closing or something. They don't know you want to build a FAQ. They thought you were just someone who didn't bother to search. Unfortunately, the latter group is pretty common in the new users (and sometimes veterans) here and thus . . .
@xCare Votes in here mean nothing other than disagreement.
declining -- you can always cast a reopen vote if the post gets closed.
Also note that all close votes automatically expire after two days.
(and for that matter reopen votes, or any other vote that attempts to reach a threshold -- otherwise, over an absurdly long period of time, say 10 years, e...
@xCare ^ An answer from Jeff Atwood himself
Second most downvoted post of all time, in all SEs.
@xCare Because back then good programming info was buried in piles of useless junk in forums, Jeff & Joel built up a restaurant site where you would just ask and get an answer. It was supposed to be not like forums where you rather "chat".
The quality of the questions devolves naturally with hordes of "helpplz homwerk needz dun till tomorow" flooding the site, but SO is still the best place to get an answer, because that's exactly how the UI is designed.
Then they thought: Why not have something as good as this for every topic?
It is. At least I haven't found anything close to being able to match with SE in how easy getting an answer is. Scratch that, how easy getting a good answer is.
It's very highly dependent on how you formulate your question, but alas.