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please do something about deleted answers

yesterday, i wrote the first answer on this topic: CLICK

today i got my "new response" mail with the other responses and wondered why my answer is gone, i thought of the "old" system problem - you wrote something and it's not there until you write the next answer in this topic - so i tried to write something and got my "you already answered..." message - i tried to update my answer and got the text shown on the screenshot below.

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surely the answer was not that well "designed" - but it was correct so why was it deleted?

that's something i don't understand

deleting should be used to remove offensive or spam posts - not to delete correct answers - on what grounds ever

there should be a function that shows who did it and there should also be a statement why it was deleted.

"The community has complete control over the content on Answers. Answers is collaboratively managed by people just like you."

sounds good, but without a proper "documentation" it will become pointless.

i understand that downvoting is anonymus - but deleting shouldn't - it's a form of censorship and i think that everybody should know why his answer was deleted

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Marcus, you're absolutely right that deletion should be as transparent as possible.

In this case, the system shows that you deleted the answer. Is it possible you could have done that by accident? It shows the deletion happened at the same time as the post.

Original post: 2010-06-23 21:07:29

Post deleted: 2010-06-23 21:07:45

I doubt that anyone else would have been it fast enough to delete it that quickly. :-)

It's possible that it's a bug in the system that caused it to be removed— but we haven't seen any other reports of something like this.

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no, i didn't delete it. gabe wrote in a different question that i deleted my comment, i didn't do that either - but the "Old Problem" is back.

sometimes when i write an answer and submit it - it isn't there, when i write another one - both answers are there. this problem came back a few days ago, it happens not every time i write something, but 1 or 2 times per day is "normal".

i'm aware of "my" time issues (right now it's 07:48am, time for another coffee) - i think i grabbed every downtime of ifixit in the past - maybe it has something to do with that?

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The same "problem" occurs when i edit a question, i do it, submit it and it's still not changed, when i hit edit again, i see the changes i've made - and when i submit it the second time - it's done. i edited the category here

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one thing i've had twice - i get an answer accepted and if i want to see the question - it's deleted - are this system issues or did the original poster delete the question ?

for example this question

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Looks like the original poster deleted his question on the last one, but I'm not sure what's causing your questions to be deleted. I'll look into it. Thanks for telling us about this!

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thanks for the feedback

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