MATLAB: How to eliminate a question posted on this forum
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How Can I eliminate a question on this forum? If I would like to eliminate a question How I can do?
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Under normal circumstances, Questions (and accompanying Answers) are retain so as to potentially be of assistance to other people who encounter related difficulties.
If there is particular reason to remove a question, you can contact the MATLAB Central team atfiles@mathworks.com, or you can contact any of the active users who have reputation 3000 or higher (look on the contributors page). Or you can Flag the question and put the explanation for the requested removal there.
The only non-spam Questions that I have encountered that needed to be removed after a valid Answer was received, were Questions that dealt with topics that the forum could not discussed for legal reasons. Or a small number of times per year, I discover I Answered a duplicate Question, and I move my Answer to the original Question and close the duplicate.
There are also possibilities such as copyright reasons, but for those questions the copyrighted material is usually edited out instead of deleting the Question.
If you (or anyone) discovers a Question which contains personal attacks or inappropriate personal remarks about someone, then please flag it or otherwise bring it to the attention of the forum staff and volunteers. The material will be removed or the post deleted.
The current question ID is 32421 and the number of existing questions is 28586. It seems like 3835 questions have been deleted. The rate of 12% is higher than I expect.
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