Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Welcome to Codidact Meta!

Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Can't delete a post after a user deleted his answer

+5
−1

I tried to delete a question without answers after a user has deleted his answer to the post but I got the following error:

This post cannot be deleted because it has responses.

I flagged and also closed the question but I assume that this error needs documentation (which I didn't find from a quick search with the site's search box).

History
Why does this post require attention from curators or moderators?
You might want to add some details to your flag.
Why should this post be closed?

0 comment threads

1 answer

+0
−4

I think we should add "something" in documentation. But i won’t allow people to remove the question after answer deletion also.

There's a good reason. I was answering in question SO after posting an answer i realized i should research about the post cause there's lot of thing is missing so i had simply deleted that answer. After deletion, i had read some doc and came back to re-edit that post what i saw that is that question was deleted. Later, what i thought that is i just wasted my time to write posts.

We are currently showing the following error always

This post cannot be deleted because it has responses.

My suggestion is to show some other error if all child posts were deleted.

Is it better?

your post can't be deleted.

Or:

your post can't be deleted because someone had already answered on the post and the answer is now deleted.

I had seen in SO that some deletes their post to gain their reputation back. After some comments, they delete question when they get the solution. So who were writting answer will feel like it’s just waste of time. It is one of the reason of leaving SO also.

History
Why does this post require attention from curators or moderators?
You might want to add some details to your flag.

0 comment threads

Sign up to answer this question »