Richard, in my case, the question I wanted to delete is already gone. I have a secret: this very "how do I delete a question" post began its life as some different, technical Microsoft question, whose answer I found elsewhere about five minutes after posting it. Because I couldn't figure out how to delete the now useless original question, which may or may not have included a hostile tone about the usability of one or more Microsoft products, I instead just edited its title and body to thie suddenly far more pressing usability question: "how do I delete a question?" I will almost certainly do the same thing the next time I need to "delete" a young, dumb question I've asked. it's the perfect cover. Nobody suspects a thing, because everyone is too busy agreeing that it'd be cool if we could delete questions.