Hey, all! I'm curious if you've ever considered how the technological enforcement mechanisms apply when comically inadequate exchanges happen. Here's a specific case study – my hopelessly misguided question a couple of weeks ago, answered in a hopelessly misguided fashion. Two trains passing in the night.
During these past couple of weeks I realized how poor my question was, and how misguided the answer was. The answer did help me, but it did so in such a convoluted way that it can't be construed as a valid answer to that question. I tried to salvage the question by rephrasing it, but it's so much off the mark that it really is beyond salvage.
And yet, I can't delete it. Nor can I totally rephrase it completely, in good honesty, without making the answer seem silly.
Here's my beef: the website forbids me from deleting the question (beyond discouraging deletion, it actively forbids it; I tried) – and I can't find any honest way to rephrase the question (specifically because my original question was so idiotic that it just cannot be saved). So now I'm stuck with a stupid question, an answer that misses the mark, I'm technologically unable to delete it. and morally unable to repurpose it.
@BogdanStăncescu I believe that the reason you cannot delete the question is that it has an accepted, upvoted answer. If you unaccept the answer, you should be able to delete the question.
That being said, if you still cannot delete the question, you might bring it up in CURED. Again, explain the situation, and you might find folk willing to delete it for you.
Finally, you can flag the question for moderator attention if you want it deleted (raise a custom flag, and explain what you have explained here in the flag field).
Since I am here, would you like the question deleted?
