@user170039 Cleaning up there, I removed all comments under that answer because they weren't pertinent to that answer. (The comment you linked to above was posted later. It is now also deleted because it was pointless.)

:)

@user170039 Yes, a similar comment was among the ones I deleted yesterday, the one you linked was posted afterwards.

I'd guess these two rooms were created (at least partially) with this in mind: Constructive feedback and Why the downvote?

@user170039 It's pretty much always pointless, and thus idle chatter.

BTW somebody created a separate website for explanation of downvotes on SO - but I doubt that it's really working: Is idownvotedbecau.se counter productive? Can it be better used?

@user170039 It was addressed basically to everybody who is interested in topic "downvotes and their explanations". BTW you reminded me of: You talkin' to me? :-)

(Not in a bad way. It's a famous quote from a good movie.)

@user170039 We can't monitor all comments, there are just far too many for that. But if such a comment gets flagged …

@MartinSleziak I understand the sentiment, but I think no such site would ever work

Hi, can a user of 42k rep see recently deleted posts? As I pinged a user in the comments to save him some wasted work but I was unsure whether the comment was hidden from him.

@RobertFrost Did you ping the user (him or her) links to the deleted posts? With 42 K rep they will certainly be able to see them, if you did so.

@DanielFischer How to proceed with a "recreational" request for "has this ever happened to you, too? Please post and share if so!" Twice closed (first time by a former mod and four users; reopened, reclosed by users including a mod), now reopened. I'm not one to relish close reopen wars. Do we sit and wait? Is this something to discuss on meta? (To me it strikes me largely as an "isn't great for those of us who are sort of "math geeks" (in the nicest sense of the word) that we can ...

..."milk" questions to come up with new questions, and then more new questions? Has anyone else done this? blah blah. The verbage is not, really, a question, and it is likely off putting to the majority of users who come looking to this site for help. I am fine with waiting for now. But if it remains, I'm working on some of my own navel-gazing interests to use click-bait to grab attention to some similar such questions, if only to show how outrageous a non-question+clickbait designed to milk

... rep (oops... I think they used the words "milking integrals") which I'd suggest serves as a means to earning rep from the users best able to appreciate the desire to create variations of questions, as well as to upvote.

If you'd rather not address my question, @DanielFischer, I will accept that, but please state as much in a comment to me, if that's the case.

@amWhy He offered to help out by making a numerical calculation before it was closed and I pinged him back to say to save his effort but within a few minutes of that the post was closed so I was just concerned he may be wasting his time unawares of what I had said.

@RobertFrost Ahhh, I can understand your concern. Your comments should still be on the closed (deleted?) post, which they will likely return to and see it's been deleted.

@RobertFrost You're talking about this question and your most recent comments there, right? Is this proof of the Collatz conjecture clear, correct and complete?

Ahhh, Thanks, @Martin. I think you'll be far more help to Robert Frost than I could have been.

To be honest, I don't know the answer to the question whether the user gets the notification or not.

Still, maybe the link might be useful - since it is at least clear that it is a deleted post and we can see there timestamps, etc.

Looking here, it seems that notifications should be removed from inbox after a post is deleted: How do notifications on deleted posts work?

But I guess it is still possible that user might get notification if they were around not too long after deletion. As with most things, there usually is some delay. I am pretty sure I have seen notifications about some comments even though they were deleted.

Maybe the interested user thought to favorite Robert Frost's post (and so has link)? I know I can retrace posts I've voted to close, or delete, or that I favorite, in the event they become deleted. (Or, if I have a link in a chat or somewhere else, posted.)

Certainly, it's possible that the user in question finds the post even without the notification.

@RobertFrost As a default mechanism/last resort, which I try not to resort to, you can always go and find an answer or question from the user (from at least a week or more ago) you want to notify, and in a comment only, write a brief comment using the "title of the question/link to question", and an "FYI: it's since been deleted." Anything to that effect.

@amWhy As you may have noticed, I don't think it is a good question for the site. But I'm not yet sure whether it's far enough beyond the line to hammer it closed again.

@DanielFischer Yes, I've certainly noticed. Thanks. I get the "waiting" time for now. Don't know what I would do as a mod, either. (Well, I do know what I would do, but I did wait and consider it again !!) :)

@MartinSleziak Thanks I've pinged him in a chatroom he uses. FYI, thanks to his rep he saw the comment.

@amWhy ^^

Perhaps some trolls? Two posts, one after the other, each with two immediate upvotes upon posting. One: Correctly spotted and closed by @DanielFischer; immediately after that, we get two upvotes on a rather hollow question What's there to do in logic. Trolls? Perhaps I should leave for the day, because this site is getting too crazy for me.

Of course, more silence.