Questions tagged [automatic-deletion]
Questions about the automatic deletion of questions or answers, whether it be from receiving six spam/offensive flags, or from the "roomba" (Community ♦ automatically deleting low-scoring and closed questions).
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Roomba'd questions are appearing in search (again)
This has now been fixed twice. As of approximately 2023-04-10, the date some of the first questions were deleted, the bug has regressed.
Demo search; note that the search is inaccurate, and does ...
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Please, add closed typo questions to Roomba!
Well, the title says everything and I know there are other questions around but I still want to revive this subject again in a hope things will change.
Typo questions attract easy answers within a few ...
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Prevent roomba from deleting questions tagged announcement
Meta posts are frequently used by moderators / staff to make announcements. Sometimes these announcements are not so popular (have negative scores) and don't receive any answers either causing roomba ...
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User's first ever post wrongly (in my opinion) auto-deleted for being spam/abusive [duplicate]
The revision history shows the original post before it was auto-deleted. No abuse is apparent and the only "spam" is a link to a book on Amazon. Why was this deleted?
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Is there a (secret?) plan / experiment to turn roomba off? [duplicate]
This bug report about roomba scripts being broken was submitted a while ago. Rough estimate suggests that amount of affected posts may fairly soon reach orders of tens of thousands (or maybe is ...
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Roomba hasn't run for the past two weeks and over 2800 questions evaded it
I've noticed the Roomba hasn't run for the past two weeks at around 3:00AM UTC. As per https://stackoverflow.com/help/roomba an example is the following question that should have been deleted over 24 ...
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Many posts deleted during roomba operation show up in search results [duplicate]
This is an extension/supplement of the issue reported in Some deleted posts show up in search results
I happened across a search earlier today which happened to contain several of these posts. When ...
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Some comments don't get deleted automatically/immediately on flagging
Some comments like "@username, thankyou" don't get deleted immediately on flagging them as NLN. Is it because it's "thankyou" and not "thank you"?
Can such comments be ...
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Should deletion of users also delete questions with accepted and upvoted answers?
It isn't very encouraging when a community bot deletes the question having an upvoted and accepted answer when the question author is deleted. I think it should be left to the humans and the bot ...
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Why did Community delete a question that has a +3 score answer? [duplicate]
My answer to this question received 3 upvotes. Why did Community delete a question that has a positive-score answer?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30967013/using-input-and-print-in-the-same-line-...
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Community-deleted/Roomba'd questions are sometimes still showing/counting in the questions page for a given tag [duplicate]
While participating in the burnination of downloadfile, I took a look at all remaining questions at one point, and was returned with the following result when searching using the query [downloadfile] ...
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Should the Roomba take bookmarks into account? [duplicate]
About a month ago I asked a question on some technical aspect of C++, that went along these lines: "I read this and heard that, yet I have here what I believe to be a counter-example. What gives ?...
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Community bot deleting questions from new users too aggressively?
I sometimes answer questions from people new to our trade. Like this one, for example.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69752397/how-to-display-default-image-when-users-photo-is-null-or-empty-in-...
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Can someone help me understand how to improve this post?
This post
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66992043/how-to-detect-that-were-in-design-mode
was deleted.
I still think it is a useful question and a useful answer.
Some respondents were confused by ...
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I flagged a comment, and it got auto-deleted. Can I be sure that I chose the correct flag?
When I flag a comment that has already been flagged by a number of users, it disappears automatically, and my flag is marked as helpful.
Does the type of flag I raise matter to the system before ...
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