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While those buttons are currently shown to users, who do not have the ability to perform the action, yet, this is going to change soon, once we roll out Abilities (formerly known as Trust Levels). Stay excited for an update on Meta Codidact for that. :D

These are the behavior rules for the currently existing and soon to be deprecated reputation system:

If you have less than 250 rep and click any of this buttons, nothing will happen (maybe an error message will be shown), unless you have super powers (mod powers).

If you have more than 250 rep and click the "Close" button, you will be shown a dialog asking you for close reasons. You may select one and then click the "Close this post" button, which should do what it is labeled.

If you have more than 1000 rep and click the "Delete" button, the post will be deleted (but only soft-deleted, so it can be undeleted at any time by the same people choosing "Restore").

In the future, we'll switch to a voting-based mechanism, where moderators really have a "binding vote", but for the time being, everyone has one. Don't get used to it too much, though, as we'll likely take it away from you in some time. ;)