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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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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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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 ...
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RemoveDeadQuestions should not apply to Meta posts
There is an automated system that eventually deletes all unanswered negative scoring questions (as long as they're not locked).
I understand why this exists for regular sites – a negative score ...
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Can ordinary users with access to moderator tools undelete questions deleted by the Community♦ user? [duplicate]
When moderators delete a post, ordinary users cannot vote to undelete. When a question is dead or abandoned, it may be deleted by the Community♦ user (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveAbandonedQuestions). ...
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Does undeletion reset the RemoveDeadQuestions clock?
A ~35 day old question with no votes or answers received a downvote resulting in a score of -1, and was deleted under the RemoveDeadQuestions criterion. I have voted to undelete such a question. ...
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Why is the script for deletion called Roomba?
In many posts I see that the script for automatic post deletion is called Roomba:
Turn off the roomba for child meta sites
Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
Lost 5 questions ...
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Help page for automatic deletion doesn't explain the rationale for deleting those questions, neither does it explain how to get them undeleted
When users come across their own question that was automatically deleted, they are given a link to the help page on what criteria cause a question to be deleted by the Community user. However, that ...
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What should I do if I find the answer to an old question of mine that was automatically deleted as abandoned?
I originally asked the question Implementing PPPoE half-bridge/ip-passthrough to suit IPSec VPN firewall appliance with Linux a little more than a year ago, which no one was able to answer. The ...
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Why aren't abandoned questions deleted on meta sites?
A long time ago, I asked this question under my old account. It has a score of 0 (but for a long time had a score of 1 with a deleted owner), has no answers, is not locked, has a low view count, and ...
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Which deletions are not shown in 10k-tools? Are posts deleted by roomba shown there?
As I learned from some other discussions, self-deleted posts are not shown in moderator tools available to 10k+ users. For example: Why are self-deleted posts not shown in the 10k Tools?
Are there ...
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