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Auto-fix duplicates of questions deleted by the Roomba
While normal users can no longer vote to delete questions that have other questions closed as duplicates of them, the automatic deletion script (a.k.a. the Roomba) still can, and does, delete such ...
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What happens to duplicate targets that are eligible for auto-deletion?
A recently added feature blocks the deletion of duplicate targets, even by moderators. A user wishing to delete such a question is advised to reopen or delete the duplicates first.
Presumably, ...
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Change to operation of Roomba when deleting duplicates
Earlier I noticed the question 12 v xbox connection on Electrical Engineering that is now a “Duplicate of…[deleted post]”. The question followed a pattern I've seen repeated many times:
User posts a ...
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Are duplicates auto-deleted? [duplicate]
Is there any condition that makes duplicates to be auto deleted at all? Or the duplicate status would protect of it:
If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...
not closed as a ...
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Possible duplicate comment deletion is over-zealous [duplicate]
I've just had two comments on Subtract boolean from float in python deleted. One was the standard possible duplicate comment, which gets deleted when the post gets marked as a duplicate.
The other ...
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Should we stop auto-deleting dupe-closed questions?
In this meta post, Shog9 writes:
But don't delete duplicates
Seriously, don't. Unless they're literally word-for-word duplicates, just leave them be - folks tend to find all sorts of different ways ...
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