# READ: THIS DOES NOT WORK. It has been broken by improvements in privilege enforcement. Sorry!

# The only reason I haven't deleted this post is that it would be particularly cruel for people seeking a way to view deleted posts to be met with another inexplicably deleted question.

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The original post is included below only for reference.

<!-- excerpt: A user script allowing users with 500+ rep to view deleted questions, if they have a link to them. -->
<!-- tag: script -->
<!-- tags: script deleted-questions coffeescript javascript -->
<!-- version: 1.3 -->
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<!-- url: http://stackapps.com/q/2505/1114 -->

> ## Screenshot
> 
> ![][screenshot]
> 
> ## About
> 
> *Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer* is a user script which allows any users with at least 500 reputation to see most deleted posts, if
> they have a link to them. It will display the post's title, content,
> vote counts and comments. If the post has been edited at least once,
> it will also display the author and editor.
> 
> You can try this out with [a deleted question and answer of mine on
> meta.stackoverflow.com][example], then consider taking a look at the
> [Popular Deleted Questions list][popular] on meta.
> 
> ### Caveats
> 
> You will only be able to see answers when you use their permalink, or
> you voted on them answer before they were deleted. This will fail for
> locked questions, but should work for all others.
> 
> This script relies on certain bugs and design features that are likely
> to be changed at some point. I'll accommodate these changes if it's
> possible, but it may not be.
> 
> ### License
> 
> Released under the [MIT Open Source License][mit].
> 
> ### Installation
> 
> [**Click here**][install] to install *Stack Exchange Deleted Question
> Viewer*.
> 
> ### Platforms
> 
> - Google Chrome
> - Mozilla Firefox + [Greasemonkey][gm]
> 
> ## Contact
> 
> *Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer* was written me, Jeremy Banks. You can just leave feedback in the comments, but if you would like to
> email me my address is in my profile.
> 
> ## Code
> 
> *Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer* was written in [CoffeeScript](http://coffeescript.org/). The source file is available
> [here][source].
> ## Oh, and...
> 
> ...if any Stack Exchange folks would prefer that this be deleted, I won't object.


  [screenshot]: https://i.sstatic.net/XCdr3.png
  [example]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/111998
  [popular]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73455/popular-deleted-questions-list
  [mit]: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
  [install]: https://gist.github.com/raw/1361876/a2935b5bf0c5b447a8939ce8afbbea95c6b31c74/deleted.user.js
  [source]: https://raw.github.com/gist/1361876/b7bd0e2228439217d3b8e882b1f8eb9a117587ef/deleted.user.coffee
  [gm]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/