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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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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1-year-old questions removed by Roomba: what happened if they are re-asked?
When a question is one-year-old, has received 0 upvote, 0 answer, fewer than 2 comments and not many visitors, it gets automatically removed.
Has anyone looked at what happened if such questions are ...
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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-...
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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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Lost 5 questions following a serial downvote
Yesterday, 5 of my questions were downvoted within 2 minutes on one Stack Exchange website (askubuntu). I didn't pay much attention to it as I thought that it would get detected as serial downvote, ...
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RemovedAbandonedClosed [duplicate]
Appears that RemovedAbandonedClosed is added after the date of the question removal, if the question is deleted by Community.
Though it acts as a reason of removal (:P), I doubt it's intentional?
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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 ...
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When Roomba deletes a question, does it always end up in the "deleted recent questions" list?
When Roomba deletes a question, does it always end up in the "deleted recent questions" list? If not, in which cases will the question not end up in the "deleted recent questions" ...
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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 ...
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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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Expanding the roomba to auto-delete self-accepted-answered questions with low views, low scores, and only 1 answer
For background info, read about the current roomba that runs automatically to delete questions.
This is a feature-request to add one more rule set on when questions will be auto-deleted by the ...
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Expand the roomba scripts to delete year or more old, up voted, closed questions
Currently the roomba has a criteria that deletes quite a bit of open questions that are considered abandoned after a year:
If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...
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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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