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Deleted Posts

All about deleted questions… PDF VERSION Tags | Deleted post | Not all questions asked on Stack Overflow for Teams are high-quality… You can restore a deleted post by clicking Manage then Undelete

Edit a Question or Answer

To see all edits made to a post, click its timeline button to the left of the post… Post editing privileges… Reasons to edit a post

Reputation and Voting

In most cases, the following activities require no additional reputation: Post a question… Upvoting a question, answer, or Article signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting… In most cases, deleted posts do not affect reputation for voters or authors

Recover the Content of a Deleted Article

You can't view a deleted article, but you can recover its content. Here's how… The deleted article's revision history remains accessible, however, allowing you to see its content… Typically, you can find the article's ID at the end of the URL of the deleted article

Review Queues

Low Quality Posts… Late answers criteria: Questions that are not deleted or locked, have 30 days between the question creation… First questions/first answers criteria: The first question or answer by a user that hasn’t been locked, deleted

Answers

If deleted by others, the writer of a deleted answer can request undeletion by flagging it for moderator… Deleted answers… This allows other users to post an answer that you may choose to accept instead

Comments

NOTE: The author of a post will receive a notification for any comment activity on their post, regardless… Admins and moderators can leave comments on any post regardless of their reputation… A user may post no more than one comment every 15 seconds

Syntax Highlighting in Code Blocks

Post-specific highlighting… (see the "Post-specific highlighting" section below)… When composing a post, you can override the default formatting for a tag by using a supported syntax

Reviewing—a Deep Dive

Guidelines for reviewing posts in SOE… Guidelines for editing first posts… Common reasons to upvote first posts

Teams User Account FAQ

How do I delete my Teams account?… Teams accounts cannot be deleted for auditing purposes, only deactivated… If you would like your Public Stack Overflow account deleted, please contact the support team via Intercom