Questions tagged [auto-delete]
Auto-deletion (also called 'Roomba') is a process which helps cleaning the site by deleting some questions. Criteria for auto-deletion are based on low score and age of the question.
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Disable roomba on Meta.SE feature requests [duplicate]
Feature request: disable roomba on Meta.SE feature requests.
Motivation: keep track of which feature requests were disapproved by the community.
Example 1 (link to post), Example 2 (link to post), ...
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Are manually undeleted questions eligible to auto deletion by roomba script again if other deletion conditions not changed? [duplicate]
I have questions (the recent one here) that has been deleted by Roomba. I'm curious will these questions be eligible to auto deletion again if they will be undeleted manually by users? Will be there ...
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Active bounty didn't prevent automatic deletion [duplicate]
According to Prevent questions with bounty from being auto-deleted an active bounty should prevent automatic deletion:
We agree, questions that contain an active bounty should not be eligible for ...
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Do the automated deletion scripts not run on questions that aren't viewed that often?
A couple days ago, someone posted a bug report that a question that qualified for a Roomba automatic deletion criterion wasn't deleted despite qualifying for at least three weekly runs of the script ...
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Should deleted answers prevent a question from being Roomba'ed?
This question should qualify as an abandoned question eligible to be Roomba'ed: it seems to satisfy all criteria. (It has quite some views, but certainly less than the threshold, because it's already ...
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With limited remaining brain cells, how can I work in a more roomba-aware way (and not lose track of questions permanently)?
I've asked more SE questions than I have remaining brain cells to keep track of them.
Sometimes I remember enough about the question to ask for assistance in a site's meta
How to get a link to an old ...
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To prevent link rot, don't roomba posts that are linked by other posts
Over on Skeptics.SE I've been following this question, which is part of a series and links to four other related questions, as indicated in this handy table:
Unfortunately, three of those questions ...
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Question with an active bounty was mistakenly deleted by the Roomba
How does Canada's radiotelescope CHIME manage polarization-dependent apodization of the fast f/0.25 optics? was previously automatically deleted RemoveAbandonedQuestions and I'd recently found it with ...
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If a Roomba-deleted question gets undeleted, please either "reset the timer" or make it exempt from its next runs
If a question deleted by the Roomba gets undeleted, that means that a strong part of the community (at least three 10k+ users, possibly more, possibly also mods) think, yes it should exist.
This is ...
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What percentage of questions which are deleted by the Roomba later get undeleted?
I'd like to know the percentage of questions that are deleted by Stack Exchange's automated deletion scripts, which later get undeleted, on each site.
Initially, I thought I could query for this in ...
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Decrease the required view count to prevent Roomba deletion when score = 0 on smaller sites
The required view count to avoid auto-deletion of a question when score = 0 is too high.
As an example: https://superuser.com/q/1472443/116475 had 562 views within 1.1 year. This is way more views ...
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Can migrated closed questions be considered for automatic deletion by the RemoveDeadQuestions and RemoveAbandonedClosed scripts?
Migrated questions that were closed a long time after the migration (and as such weren't marked "rejected") are not automatically deleted by the RemoveDeadQuestions and RemoveAbandonedClosed ...
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Why is this question NOT automatically deleted by the RemoveAbandonedClosed script?
This question on Music Fans SE seems to qualify for auto-deletion by the RemoveAbandonedClosed script since it seems to satisfy all the mentioned criteria for deletion. However, I have been tracking ...
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Question deleted under RemoveDeadQuestions does not show negative score at deletion time
A question deleted under RemoveDeadQuestions does not show negative vote at deletion time. From the question timeline (link needs mod access on Earth Science SE):
At score 0, it should be removed ...
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How should we handle questions that have been reposted after being deleted due to one downvote + SE's automated process to remove questions?
How should we handle questions that:
have been reposted after being deleted due to one downvote + Stack Exchange's automated process to remove questions?
received no comments (or all comments were ...