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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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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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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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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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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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What was the original intention for automatically deleting old, unanswered questions with +1 score and a deleted owner?
According to this answer to How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion? (which is tagged faq), the Community user ...
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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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Why was this question with score of +2 deleted by Community?
The following question was deleted by Community♦ (Roomba):
Simulate NPDAs with DTMs using only polynomial overhead
Why? What the heck?
The help page lists a bunch of criteria under which Roomba ...
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Is score or number of upvotes of an answer relevant for the rules about deleting?
This posts gives detailed rules about deleting questions: How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion? (I will ...
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How to find closed questions that will not be auto-deleted
There is an auto-deletion process that removes open, abandoned questions, and under certain circumstances, closed questions. But there are many closed questions that are preserved. Looking for those ...
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