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6:25 AM

Q: Are there some possibilities for users below 10k to see deleted posts of other users?

Users that have at least 10k reputation can view deleted questions and answers. IIRC every user can see their own deleted recent questions on their profile page. (For more details, see: Is there any way to see my deleted questions or answers?) Are there any tricks that users with reputation belo...

A: Are there some possibilities for users below 10k to see deleted posts of other users?

If you remember some parts of the text of the question (title, usernames of user who participated there). You can try Google. If you are lucky, you can find that it is still in Google cache, or that one of the many sites that copy content from SE sites contains the question. For example, the qu...

If you know the URL of the deleted question and date before it was deleted, then try the Web Archive. Does it work? — Tyma Gaidash Sep 22 at 17:19

@TymaGaidash I am a bit confused what you mean by saying: "Does it work?"

Clearly, Wayback Machine is a working website, many people use it.

Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" and see how websites looked in the past. Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, developed the Wayback Machine to provide "universal access to all knowledge" by preserving archived copies of defunct web pages.Launched on May 10, 1996, the Wayback Machine had more than 38.2 million records at the end of 2009. As of August 2022, the machine had saved more than...

At the same time, it would be naive to expect that every question from Mathematics is saved there. If you're lucky, maybe the one you're searching for might be there.

I did not want to respond in comment - since it isn't clear to me what you're actually asking. So I've tried chat.

I have sent you an invite to this room - so I hope you'll be notified in some way.

As a side note, there is this room - which you might try if you're searching for some question (or answer):

A: List of chatrooms

In the search of a question - this room was created partly to collect feedback on Approach0 search engine and partly to assist with searching on the site in general. The creation of the room was mentioned here: Announcing a third-party search engine for Math StackExchange.

$Mathematics$ In the search of a question

When you are looking for a specific question (using Approach0 ...

Martin Sleziak

7:13 AM

To include at least one specific example, there used to be question on MathOverflow about math jokes: Do good math jokes exists?

If you search in the Wayback Machine, you can find several snapshots of that page - for example, this one.

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Martin Sleziak

10:17 AM

@TymaGaidash It is a bit unclear to me what you meant by the question: "Does it work?" I left a few comments in chat - including an example of question that can be found in the Wayback Machine. Feel free to ping me there, if some further clarification is needed. — Martin Sleziak 18 secs ago

Tyma Gaidash

11:14 AM

@MartinSleziak By “Does it work?”, it was meant to ask “Does the Wayback Machine give you snapshots of deleted questions?”. You showed an example of it from MathOverflow, so it should also give snapshots for some deleted posts on other Stack-exchange sites too. Thanks for the effort your response

1 hour later…

Martin Sleziak

12:36 PM

Yes, exactly as you wrote, the important keyword is some.

There is certainly no guarantee that a question was saved in the Wayback Machine before it was deleted. But at least sometimes this could work.

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