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I came across this post, which looks to me a LLM-generated spam post. I found out that I don't have the spam flag option for this post. At the end, I resort to the mod flag, as that is the only option ...
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Referring to this deleted answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/79910059/453851 I returned to accept the correct answer and found it had been deleted on what appears to be an AI content flag. I’m very ...
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Here's an answer that had 12 upvotes (full disclosure, one was mine): https://stackoverflow.com/a/79671521/5987 It says it was deleted two months ago by Community Bot, which is 5 months after it was ...
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Converting an accepted answer (appended below) into a comment, even while appropriate in some cases, turns "answered" questions into unanswered ones... and most probably, they will always ...
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This answer to question Generate Java code given a diagram PlantUML (deleted) (both appended below) was deleted by a moderator as it provided a link and was considered self-promotional. This project ...
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One of my answers, on a bountied question, was deleted by a moderator for plagiarism. I understand the concern. Since then, I’ve rewritten the answer in my own words and added proper references. I ...
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I posted an answer that ended up with multiple downvotes that I believed would be genuinely helpful to the person asking the question, including a code sample. What could I do to improve the answer?
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So I recently came across a review for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79608719/15982771 If you're having trouble pulling a Docker image and it's failing with network-related errors, try using ...
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I recently flagged this link-only answer with the "In need of moderator intervention" flag with the note: "Link-only answer". But it was declined with the note: Declined - Using ...
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I wrote this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/79518727/1917171, but it was deleted today without any feedback. I'm reading https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers but not seeing really why it ...
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My experience taught me that in case of complex, time-consuming algorithms, one should try to find obvious solutions first, and only when those are not found, launch the algorithm. I thought of ...
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I just noticed that on one of my questions, a given answer, was deleted. I think this was a good answer, and as far as I remember I also accepted it. It appears that this was a false positive. I can ...
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So I recently got access to review queues for first questions and answers. And I'm having a little trouble, in some cases, deciding the most appropiate course of action for the poor-question-poor-...
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Just 2 days ago my answer got deleted by one of the moderators. I remember that previously the reason for the cleanup was stated at the bottom of the post. I haven't got any objection, I only want to ...
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I've flagged this answer to How do I cast int to enum in C#? because (as its title suggests) the question is about casting an int to enum and the answer (as it states at its very beginning : "...
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I recently encountered this answer: 0 For Android 12 and above... and this is going to sound a little funny.... try chatGPT for the answer you're looking for. Here's the prompt I used show me how to ...
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I found this comment : "timestamp has a some limitations, you might want to read this stackoverflow.com/a/7229760/2652018" The link refer to a question that seems similar. The link doesn't ...
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I received a downvote to this answer to a question about the HTTP spec that I don't understand. Given that my answer is directly copied from the spec, the only reasons I could think for the downvote ...
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I recently provided this answer (screenshot for <10k users) to a question about a regex, and it received a downvote fairly quickly. I'd rather get ahead of bad posting habits if I can, so I was ...
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I want to ask about my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78498819/1718491 It has 4+ down-votes as "spam" and I'd like to ask if this really qualifies as "spam" or not. I ...
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I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: What is the relationship between iostream and namespace std? My answer was deleted (by '3 users vote' ) and isn't off-topic nor match criteria, ...
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I believe a moderator deleted my answer without reading it thoroughly. Direct link to the now deleted answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77964098/1426539 Since 2011, this topic received a lot of ...
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I found this question which already has an accepted answer there. While it's true that my answer doesn't directly answer what's asked in the title, it's answering part of the title that could be the ...
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Answer in question: Deno - Relative import path "$fresh/dev.ts" not prefixed Its first version was: In my case, I want to change the source directory. If the path contains a space or a non-...
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I awarded a bounty on an answer to this question seleniumbase (undetected Chrome driver): how to set request header? but the relevant answer has disappeared, presumably deleted for some unknown reason....
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I don't know who can even see it, but I don't know why my answer was deleted. If there's an issue with it, why can't someone just leave a comment explaining the issue? In the answer, I give options ...
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A question I posted an answer to was deleted: Why does a regex using an unescaped dash - character not seem to work in a pattern attribute in HTML but it works when testing on regex101? (Screenshot of ...
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I'm a bit puzzled as to why my answer to a SE questions was deleted without further comment. There is just a laconic "One reason it's not useful is because the majority (if not the whole thing) ...
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I wrote an answer to a poorly written question. I provided a possible answer but added a disclaimer to state that the symptoms described in the question can have many causes. And the only way to find ...
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I came across https://stackoverflow.com/a/22523287, which is just: All the while I was doing .style("fill", "darkOrange") Then I found out the correct answer is .style('fill', '...
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I was wondering, why was this answer deleted by moderation? Razor code formatting issue with Visual Studio 2022 It did help me understand the issue I was having. Though not perfect, should it have ...
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The question is about this answer: Why did this python list get passed by value? It contains a gibberish text that is in no way related to the question and a link to a crypto exchange website. For me, ...
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It's about this answer that I flagged because it contains rude/noisy content. The moderators removed the noise but the OP rollback to a previous version. I tried to do the same but still, the OP ...
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Tonight in the Triage review queue, I came across what looked at first sight like a run-of-the-mill low quality 'write my code for me' question. I was about to flag it as unsalvageable, since the ...
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Today I stumbled upon this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4083233/8620333 and I find out that a person made an edit to include new information. Probably useful but "Clearly conflicts with ...
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My question was answered, but the answer is not actually a useful answer to my question. I voted to delete that answer, because I started a bounty and need correct attention. When an answer is NOT ...
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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 ...
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A few times I have experienced that I spent time writing an answer to a question only to find that the question was deleted. This seems to cause my answer to simply disappear from the universe. Is ...
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See Chart a line graph using linqpad A user asks a question and four hours later provides an answer (which is IMHO a perfectly valid answer). His/her answer was then reviewed and deleted because it ...
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The solution on Building/Installing Xdebug on Mac OS X with MAMP is outdated, and would I love to combine my answer reflecting current affairs into the accepted answer. Yet it apparently is held up in ...
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Not real sure why this answer was deleted. It appears to at least attempt to answer the question. In fact, the answer is of higher quality than the question itself. https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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There is a question I answered on Stack Overflow back in 2018. It has been there for 6 years, protected as a community wiki, and has 166 votes. How do I remedy "The breakpoint will not currently ...
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I'm a new contributor trying to get more into helping on Stack Overflow, and after spending a while writing up an answer, it was deleted because it seems like I used ChatGPT. It might have been a ...
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My answer was deleted by a mod for plagiarism. Why? It mentioned the source clearly ("code from gns-ank"). Answer: Since Matplotlib isn't able to use the metric system natively, if you want ...
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Here are the posts: https://stackoverflow.com/a/74637625/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/74615350/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/74490727/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/74450165/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/...
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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 ...
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This answer was deleted not by its author but by two other users, one of them a moderator. It's an alright answer, the author put good effort into it, and it has five upvotes. I think at least some of ...
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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 ...
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Yesterday a new poster asked this question: How do I track down this exception in netbeans? The question related to a problem when using the NetBeans installer to install NetBeans, and there were ...
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I’ve noticed that some answers start with a a <h1>/<h2> not to structure the answer in different parts --there’s only one-- but to attract eyeballs. I guess there can be legitimate uses; ...
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