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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), ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
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1 answer
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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 ...
LShaver's user avatar
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18 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
peterh's user avatar
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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 ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
8 votes
0 answers
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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 ...
user avatar
47 votes
3 answers
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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 ...
Alex's user avatar
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11 votes
1 answer
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Accepted answers should not categorically block auto-deletion of closed questions

tl;dr Allow Roomba to auto-delete a closed question regardless of an accepted answer when the other criteria for auto-deletion are met Roomba should count an answer acceptance as a single upvote to ...
user avatar
44 votes
4 answers
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Modify the 'has 1 or 0 comments' requirement for 'RemoveAbandonedQuestions' script

From the help center, auto-delete section (emphasis is mine): If the question is more than 365 days old, and ... has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 and a deleted owner has no answers is not ...
Andre Silva's user avatar
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1 answer
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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 ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
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Edit the MSE help page about automatic deletion to remove a criterion that is not enabled here

The help page here on MSE about the roomba says that abandoned questions older than 365 days are deleted in certain cases as RemoveAbandonedQuestions. While this is true on main Q&A sites, as per ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
18 votes
1 answer
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Vote invalidation script should undelete questions that were previously wrongly deleted

When SE invalidates votes due to voting irregularities, the script should check whether those votes have caused any posts to be deleted, and undelete them if they wouldn't have been deleted without ...
D.W.'s user avatar
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-4 votes
2 answers
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Automatically delete negatively-scored answers after a time

Downvoted, unanswered questions have been subject to automatic deletion for a long time. The same is not true of downvoted answers. On Super User, we have almost ten thousand non-accepted negatively-...
Ben N's user avatar
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23 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
Ilmari Karonen's user avatar
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3 answers
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When Roomba deletes a question, add it to the “deleted recent questions” list

When Roomba deletes a question, that would be great if the question always gets added it to the “deleted recent questions” list (or some other list). As of now, questions older than 60 days that ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
9 votes
0 answers
177 views

Notify the OP when a question is about to be removed by Roomba

Would it be possible to notify the OP when one of his/her questions is about to be removed by Roomba? I don't think it's very respectful to the OP to delete content without any warning and possibility ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar

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