Back in 2010, a request was made for a search operator for protected questions. This hasn't been implemented, so I thought I'd look at it from a different angle.
In November of 2016, we added the ability to see a full list of protected questions to the 10K tools page. This doesn't completely sol...
@Shog9 Unrelated question: What's the current rationale for not allowing all users to see a list of all their deleted posts? From what I can tell it was declined by Jeff in 2009 to prevent bad posts from being undeleted, back when authors could undelete any of their deleted posts regardless of their having been deleted by a mod, etc.
Despite quite a bit of new answers and votes, it still stands at status-declined despite the fact that the original reason for declining it no longer applies, so what's the current reason?
@Shog9 The lowest voted answer by Jeff says something about stopping users from "undeleting their crap"...doesn't that no longer apply since users are now blocked from undeleting most community-deleted posts, except review-deleted ones but doing so raises an automatic mod flag?
I wasn't sure if it was intentional or not... I mean, it wouldn't be out of alignment if the comment upvote counter was there but when it's not, it looks off... and there's an open space on the right instead.
@Shog9 So a 1k+ user like me would keep whining about deleted posts? Sure, recently I asked "why was my question closed, deleted" in SOCVR recently, but those were not complaints, I was legitimately asking those questions so I knew how to improve my question.
In other words, users were putting more thought into the tone of that message, rather than the text, which simply asked a question. My response then was, "how am I supposed to know how to improve it without knowing why it was closed?"
@Catija It's likely the new comment styling, the same one that was causing all sorts of breakage in Firefox ESR.
Users can still see all of their deleted posts, though... last I checked, as long as a user has a link to the post, they can still get to it. All SE is refusing to do is give them a list of deleted answers on their user pages to dwell on.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Yeah, that's my thought... just not sure if it's intentional or not... whether it should be reported...
Generally when things get deleted, it's for a good reason, and we don't want users to be undeleting them -- there's a reason we require 10k rep to "see" deleted items at all, and only moderators can see deletions in a user's profile.
@Jeff, since most all of the undeletion isn't allowed anymore (since you can't undelete what a moderator deletes), it seems like this reason no longer applies. — Lance RobertsMay 22 '11 at 6:28
@AnnaLear And as all the other answers say; Jeff didn't reason for declining this request, he merely said "it would lead to unbelievable amounts of whining" which sounds like pure speculation. I think most upvoted answers has very valid points so I'm surprised there has been no reasoning of this or at least documentation that proves Jeff's presumably veto-decision to be the best one. — Aske B.Sep 16 '12 at 9:32
I'm building an application that detects plagiarized answers on Stack Overflow, so I need to retrieve the content of answers programatically.
I know I can do this using the Stack Exchange API, but the API uses rate-limiting/throttling to prevent abuse.
I was considering just making normal HTTP ...