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Q&A Shouldn't be able to delete question after any response

The presence of an answer already blocks deletion (except by moderators, who can override this). Allowing the presence of a comment to prevent deletion would be too easy to abuse, as pointed out i...

posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2023-11-30T02:28:14Z (12 months ago)
The presence of an answer already blocks deletion (except by moderators, who can override this).  Allowing the presence of a comment to prevent deletion would be too easy to abuse, as pointed out in other answers.  Moderators can recover comments, so in the event that there was something important in comments that couldn't have been in an answer instead, there is a way to get them back.