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Questioning the deletion of an answer
Not an active member of this community. Not a moderator. Not the moderator who deleted your post, so take this with a grain (or frontloader) full of salt.
The deletion undermines the right to freedom ...
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Questioning the deletion of an answer
I am the moderator who protected the question from answers being posted by new users, just prior to the answer being deleted. I then asked other mods to review the questions
My reasoning was:
I ...
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What has happened to this site?
Well, the quarter just started with October, so don't read too much into that set of stats! However, yes, there's definitely a slow down from the initial days of the site and we could remain in ...
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About self-deleting answers
Leave them unless you are hijacking the question
Once a question is posted, it is not owned by OP but the community itself. As a result, answers should be aimed not to satisfy a whimsical OP, but they ...
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About self-deleting answers
In my personal opinion, an answer should only be deleted if:
it's objectively wrong, deceiving or otherwise spreads false information;,
it doesn't answer the question (as it were at the time of ...
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Questioning the deletion of an answer
The deletion undermines the right to freedom of expression.
While I understand your feelings (and frankly share them) deletion of a post on a privately owned and operated website in no way undermines ...
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What shall we do when an accepted answer gives dangerous advice?
If you think an answer is not helpful or is harmful, give it a down vote and/or post a comment under the the answer with your concerns. Possibly, the answer will be edited to address your concerns.
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top of the list?
Yes, unpin the accepted answer
The accepted answer shouldn't get special treatment; it should be sorted as it would have been if it hadn't been accepted.
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top of the list?
No, keep the accepted answer pinned
Keep things the way they are; it works fine.
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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top of the list?
Thanks for your patience in getting this change enacted here. I've changed the site setting for the Main Pets site for you as of just now. If at some point in the future you want to go back to pinning ...
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About self-deleting answers
I am sorry and I know this Q&A was partly inspired by my behaviour. I recently made a bit of a moody princess of myself and deleted a few of my answers.
I deleted these answers because I genuinely ...
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What's the policy on showing images of neglected or sick animals?
Use a spoiler markup '>!' to hide content
Mouse over to see the content, you can hit edit on this question to see how I wrote it.
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Questioning the deletion of an answer
I am looking into this in retrospect; I was not involved in these events.
I actually have to agree that the deletion of your answer right away was excessive. The problematic part of your answer was ...
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