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12:01 AM

@רבותמחשבות The spam/rude designation is automatic on deleted answers that have a spam/rude flag raised on them.

A: Remove links when a post is deleted by Community from spam/offensive flags

Going forward, deleted answers that have had any spam or offensive flags raised against them, will not show the answer body but the following text: This answer was marked as spam or offensive and is therefore not shown - you can see the revision history for details Where "the revision histo...

I.e., the three users who actually deleted it didn't necessarily consider it spam/rude.

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12:13 AM

@Alex Fair, and thanks, but I'm still looking as to why anyone would consider it worthy of deletion or spam/rude.

Turk Hill

12:29 AM

Double AA

1:28 AM

@רבותמחשבות users with 20k rep have the deletion vote privilege

judaism.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user

Here is the guidance for when they should vote to delete answers

When should I vote to delete an answer?
You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:

The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement
The answer doesn't attempt to answer the question; it may be a comment or a separate question altogether.

I'm having a hard time imaging a -15 post that doesn't meet the first criterion, but I suppose it's possible

Dr. Shmuel

1:47 AM

Why does R”G (Krisos 6a והרי תרומת הדשן) explain the terumas hadeshen as מלא קומצו? Does he speak in idiom?

רבות מחשבות

2:13 AM

Interesting. I was going off the deleted answers page, which says answers that do not fundamentally answer the question are deleted (and that's it). The examples are:
commentary on the question or other answers
asking another, different question
“thanks!” or “me too!” responses
exact duplicates of other answers
barely more than a link to an external site
not even a partial answer to the actual question

judaism.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers

But I definitely agree that it is extremely low quality, and I'm glad that's a criterion for deletion. FWIW, I remember a number of cases where I voted to delete an answer based on that, and I was told off.

Double AA

I don't have a canonical source for this, but generally we've used mod power deletion votes only for your stricter list of reasons.

20k votes have had more leeway to guide the site direction representing the community perspective.

רבות מחשבות

@DoubleAA I appreciate that info, thanks!

Double AA

I'll just caution not to use "low quality" deletion votes too liberally. We want room for reasonable disagreement here.

רבות מחשבות

@DoubleAA Definitely agreed. Thanks again!

Double AA

Stay safe @רבותמחשבות

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