Delete this post for me

Question

I have a question about my Role-playing Games Stack Exchange post: What is 5e's Damage Dice Progression?

I am removing the Question for a lack of valid input in an attempt to clean up spam and trolling. Delete it, as it refuses to allow me to do so.

Answer 1

I deleted the question in... question.

Sorry, I didn’t even see this meta before I did it, I was just responding to multiple flags on the Q and mod message discussion. But the question(s) were a mess of many iterations of edit by many people, hostile discussion and argument, ending in the OP’s suspension. There was little there of value to anyone.

While the other answers are correct in that we are under no obligation to delete content just because the OP wants us to, I feel that often on this site we go way too far trying to “save” some question that has clearly become cancerous way beyond a valuable use of our time. When it’s causing continued problems, we need to stop “picking at the scab.” The community should delete the question, if it's really bad the mods should suspend/mod message anyone that needs it, and then we should all move on to spending our effort on the hundreds of other constructive questions from users respecting the site and wanting our help.

We like good questions and we like good users. We should try to provide guidance to improve ones not so good yet. But when that help is resisted and it’s not going to be a good investment, it is time for us to clean the slate.

If my fellow mods disagree we can undelete it, but that just brings back argument and wasted work for content that is not helping the OP and not really helping anyone else much either, can’t be meaningfully refined, never get an accepted answer, etc., and I think it would be imprudent. If someone has a good on topic question on this subject I would much rather them post it in the future instead of being referred to a previous bag of burning hair as a "duplicate."

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I don't usually like to vote to delete content that could be helpful to other users. The reason you can't delete the question yourself is because of the answers to the question. Clearly, enough users thought it was helpful enough to answer (and upvote those answers) so in order for it to be deleted, a number of the site's trusted users or a mod would have to intervene.

While the site is certainly designed for direct questions and answers for users, it is also useful as a database of information for people to access. The question you asked is one that may come up for a number of people and as such is a very useful question (I upvoted it for that reason). You also had accepted one of the answers, which I agree is a good summary of how damage dice works for monsters, but as the answer states, what you are searching for in a "comprehensive list" does not exist:

There isn't a progression for PCs.

If there was a more comprehensive table, one of the 5th edition experts would have included it in an answer. Instead you were given one answer with all of the official tables (the only one I know of is the monster size table) and another useful answer with some commonalities for weapon damages.

When you re-asked the question for more information, the only real answer that could be given is "there isn't anything else, look back at the other question" which is why we marked it as a duplicate. When other users would have arrived at the "comprehensive list question", they would have seen that all the information the 5e experts on this site has was already cataloged in the previous post.

If you think that the question could use more answers, hang around the site some, ask some good questions, maybe even post some answers, and when you have enough reputation you can add a bounty to your question in the hopes that someone else finds it to add another answer.

Answer 4

Potential X-Y Problem and setting expectations

You may be looking at an X-Y problem, but I'm not sure that's the case.

Understanding why you are looking for this list may be a better way for the site to focus on helping you write a question that's useful for yourself AND for others.

Asking for a developing specific item

If you have a specific item you're trying to stat, I'd suggest starting with asking how to stat that. It may be easier than you're making it out to be.

Asking for a list compilation

But I can also see the case where you're just wanting a compilation of lists. That is a valid question, but it may receive downvotes as showing poor effort. The stack generally doesn't respond well to "do my work for me", even if you have tried incredibly hard to do it first. Please don't take the downvotes personally if they do come, the goal is to get you answer that useful for you and hopefully others. If you get downvotes and you get an answer that helps, that's still a win.