ChatterBank2 mins ago
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you, AB Editor, have got the time to delete questions which were perfectly valid and reasonable in the first place, then by definition you have also got enough time to give a proper specific explanation in this particular case*. If you do not have the time to explain why you have deleted a reasonable and fair question, then by definition you do not have the time to go to the lengths of deleting the question.
* (you will have noticed that I have very carefully and deliberately NOT suggested that you should give an individual explanation in every case of a question or answer being deleted.)
And if you, becks, want to ask your question again then I am sure that we will be happy to re-submit our answers.
Perhaps the AB editor does not have the time (or desire) to read every thread to choose which ones must go.
Every question/answer has a "Report this question/answer" link.
Perhaps the AB editor only has the time (or desire) to read (or just delete) the reported questions/answers. This would answer Fakeplastic's question to the editor as to why not remove all threads which seem chatty. If the thread is never reported, it does not get deleted. If it is there two weeks before it is reported, then it is there two weeks before it is removed.
Perhaps AB is not policed by the editor at all. Perhaps it is policed by the users and merely reacted upon by the editor.
Perhaps the generic, non-specific explainations provided by the AB editor are meant to protect the guilty.
Just a thought, perhaps I am way off base.