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Q: A site user asked for my advice but requested that the question be deleted as soon as possible because he feared that his friend would see it. Because he was so uncomfortable, I told him in my response to delete the question off his account as soon as possible and that I would change my user settings to not reflect questions that had been deleted by the person asking. I changed my user settings and he deleted the question... But the question still shows up on my advice column. When I checked the status of my questions it says that the question has been deleted, but it still shows up on my column, even when I log out. Do I have to wait a certain amount of time or is this a technical issue that can only be solved my tech support. Thanks for your time. :)

Hello there,

Questions are never truly deleted unless they are stupid or abusive. At that point they are sent via abuse report and a moderator can delete them by hand.

The don't show deleted questions thing is a leftover from the previous site admin that will be removed when I get a chance. (Thanks for reminding me!)

I went ahead and deleted the questions (he asked it to multiple users.)

Thanks for your help around here. Nice to see you again.

Rating: 5

Thanks so much for your help. :)

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This advice column is for suggestions, comments, or error reporting about advicenators. If you'd like to suggest a new category, ask me a question. If you'd like to whine, bitch, or complain about advicenators, you may whine, bitch, or complain to me.

Three rules though:
1) Do not ask me for life advice. We have several thousand other members that do that.

2) Do not ask for help, or ask how to do something, or ask about
how something on the site works, unless you've read every word of our help pages and you're sure it's not addressed there.

3) Do not ask me to ban someone or investigate abuse. We have an entire abuse system set up for that.

If you disobey one of these rules, I'll delete your question.

Some guidelines about suggestions:
If you offer a suggestion that I find interesting, I might just ignore your question so it stays in my inbox as a reminder of something to do. Don't be upset that I don't answer you, and don't delete your questions (because then I'll forget!)

If you have three suggestions, please ask three separate questions, that way I can address each one individually. It's a real pain when people ask one question with like twenty different topics in it; I can't keep them straight.