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Comments on Block adding answers and editing of question/answers of deleted questions.

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Block adding answers and editing of question/answers of deleted questions.

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A deleted question should:

  • Be viewable only by author, Moderators and appropriate high-TL users.
  • Not allow new comments or editing of comments on question or answers.
  • Not allow new answers.
  • Not allow editing of question or answers.

Currently, new answers are allowed and editing of questions and answers is allowed.

In response to some of the comments & answers, Some Other sites have two very different "question goes inactive" statuses:

  • Deleted - This is what I am talking about here. The question is basically "gone" except for viewing by Author, Moderators and very high privilege users. This is for hate/spam/gibberish.
  • Closed - This is the "maybe you can make it better" status. Not inherently bad, just not good enough. This is for duplicate/poor quality/off-topic. There is hope it can be fixed (explanation of why it isn't a duplicate, improve content and formatting, focus to be more on-topic).

As far as I am concerned, Deleted questions really need no new activity at all. Possibly comments by Author/Moderators/high-privilege-users but that is it. Closed questions, on the other hand, could have much more activity, particularly including edits to improve the question.

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msh210‭ wrote about 4 years ago

-1 because I disagree with some of the points.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Questions deleted by users can be deleted in error, so while it's usually spam or trolling, there could also be a misunderstanding, language barrier, overzealous deleter, or whatever.