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Deleting comments on guides

I just noticed that someone had left a question on this guide, but also asked the same question on Answers. The only options to eliminate this is to either remove as spam or to switch to a question.

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Eliminating it as spam, which it really is not,will leave the OP with some big deduction in reputation points. Converting it to a question would make it a duplicate on Answers. Do you think it might be possible to create a third option, something like delete as not a valid comment maybe? This particular one was converted to a question and then deleted since it already existed.

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@oldturkey03 - How about making it a Q, then delete if from there or mark it as a duplicate.

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@danj that is what I currently do, but it is an extra step that could be eliminated. The other issue is that it has the potential to create a duplicate question in Answers, as it happened with this particular question.

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hmmmm... is this something that happens a lot? I agree that's a clunky solution, but just wondering if this is a really consistent problem. Thanks!

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Seems to me (and correct me if I'm wrong) that maybe we shouldn't be deleting content if it's not spam/offensive? I'm not entirely sure of the content you're dealing with, but if they're harmless, just stupid, we should probably leave them in place, rather than censor people?

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@kaykay it is not much of a problem from what I can see but it does pop up every now and then in both areas, Notes and Answers. Not often enough to cause any big issues and if need should be, can be dealt with in the way we have done before.

@sam it is not about deleting anything other than duplicates. I know this maybe hard to believe,but I am actually not in favor of censoring anything. Not even stupid :-) (deal with that a lot too). I do despise profanity in/on public places and believe that should be censor at anytime:-))

I'll be okay if you leave it as is.

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I didn't expect you'd delete the wrong things, I have a lot of trust in you! That's a great example of things that might need deletion. Maybe we can look into more options like you see on Answers (Merge as Duplicate etc)?

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