I was writing today a comment to an answer to a question. Shortly after posting, I realized that my comment was complete blunder. I wanted to delete my comment - there was a small "delete" link near the place where the comment is placed -, but what happened was, that the whole answer was deleted!!!!

Now I would like to know:

  • Is there a way to un-delete it?
  • What would be the correct way to erase a comment? Or should I just post another comment saying "please ignore my previous comment"?

For the time being, I wrote an answer to the question, where I apologized for what I did, tried to recreated the erased answer, and refered to the original author of this answer.

This is the topic where it happened:

How to check shell script has enough permissions to run

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    You would not be able to delete an answer by someone else all by yourself. Chances is that it was deleted by the answer OP or possibly a moderator around the same time.
    – Oded
    Oct 23, 2015 at 8:01
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    Imagine that you could just delete answers willy-nilly. The site wouldn't be much of use if that were possible.
    – Gimby
    Oct 23, 2015 at 8:02

1 Answer 1


The answer's OP has deleted it.

It's got nothing to do with your actions (except as a possible response to your comment).

  • This would be a pity, because I think the OPs answer was a good one. Is there a way I can send him or her a message? I don't find a contact information on the profile page, stackoverflow.com/users/3775049/edwardramsey Oct 23, 2015 at 12:32
  • If the OP chose to not share any contact information then that's how it goes.
    – Oded
    Oct 23, 2015 at 12:41

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