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It's not possible to delete your question once it has more than one answer, or a single upvoted answer. So the scenario you describe at the bottom here doesn't make sense.

Jeff Atwood
– Jeff Atwood StaffMod

2013-04-05 23:36:30 +00:00
Commented Apr 5, 2013 at 23:36
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@JeffAtwood I'm not sure which scenario you are talking about. Are you talking about Mark Booth's scenario? In case his answer was the only one and it didn't reach to receive any upvotes before the asker deleted his question it would be entirely possible, to my understanding, or am I misunderstanding you?

Aske B.
– Aske B.

2013-04-09 13:03:31 +00:00
Commented Apr 9, 2013 at 13:03
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@JeffAtwood They can be deleted for moderation (user flags for deletion, mods oblige). It just happened to me - I lost a large, upvoted (last I could see it) answer that I would kind of like to have kept a copy of. Either that or I want 45 minutes of my life back from last night because I have nothing to show for it today. stackoverflow.com/questions/18392745/…

J...
– J...

2013-08-23 09:24:24 +00:00
Commented Aug 23, 2013 at 9:24

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