Questions tagged [deleted-answers]
For questions about deleted answers, especially on the Role Playing Games Stack Exchange mainsite (but potentially on Meta as well). This covers both general policies/practices surrounding deleted answers and issues relating to specific deleted answers.
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Why was my answer to a question about the naming of oozes deemed “not an answer”?
I recently answered the question What's the difference between a jelly, a pudding, and other oozes? by saying that there is no answer to discover. However, my answer was deleted. That's fine in ...
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Why was this answer to the question “Can a player choose to fail a spell's ability check contest?” deleted?
The question Can a player choose to fail a spell's ability check contest? has a deleted answer. For users without 10k rep, here's a screenshot of the answer:
While the post score is very negative,...
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Improvement on Deleted Answers Help Page - deletion due to rpg.se policies
Deleted answers help page starts with the sentence:
Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed.
And goes on to give examples of non-answer answers.
Yet, deletion can ...
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The best answer to my question was deleted by its owner; what do I do?
The best answer on my recent question was deleted by its owner. It raises many of the issues that were the reason I asked the question and doesn't appear to have any major issues to be a cause for ...
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What warranted multiple downvotes and a delete vote here?
In D&D, how do you find attack bonus for weapons?
Okay, clearly not a 100 score answer -- I don't own the books (certainly wouldn't have them with me at work even if I did). Is it a clear no-no, ...
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When should I vote to undelete an answer?
I recently crossed the rep threshold to gain the trusted user privilege. The FAQ is very clear about the deleting and editing privileges... but not the undeleting privilege.
When should I vote to ...
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Should I delete an answer that becomes irrelevant after the question is edited? [duplicate]
For example, this answer (which I've deleted) to What happens when you cast Fog Cloud behind a wall?, but this isn't the only case.
The question originally asked about Create Bonfire, not Fog Cloud - ...
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Partial answer deleted as not an answer re: Medieval law and a tabletop role-playing game
In the following question:
Does Common Law apply to Nobles?
The OP asks about applying a certain section of medieval law to the Warhammer Fantasy setting. I understood this to be a question about ...
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Why was my answer deleted?
My reply was in answer to this question about 'How to make players settle differences IC?
I posted my answer, got a comment from SevenSidedDie, replied to it, then he replied and deleted my answer in ...
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Should I delete an answer I posted too soon before knowing the question was a duplicate? [duplicate]
I ninja-answered the question Can one still deal Non-Lethal Damage if they trigger the Automatic Kill feature? with an answer right before it got closed due to being a duplicate, because I didn't ...
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Are we comfortable with our current position on deleting general answers to system specific questions?
So this has come up a few times now, with different systems. Most recently the main issue has been with Dungeon World questions. We've had a rash of these, with answers from people that know nothing ...
