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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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 ...
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Proposed Change to Community Deletion Criteria
Per this answer, the Community user autodeletes any answer that matches this criteria (among others):
The system will automatically delete closed (not as a duplicate), unlocked questions with zero or ...
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Is the automatic question deletion routine broken?
I believe Roomba (aka automatic question deletion) is broken.
While working on some delete vote therapy(TM), I ran across 5 questions that met the criteria for being automatically deleted but had not ...
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Are rejected migrations ever automatically deleted from the destination site? Should they be?
Now that rejected migrations are clearly identified, the list of them can be found with Google. Browsing them, I noticed that some questions persist in the rejected-closed-locked state for many months;...
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Why did my old question suddenly disappear after it got downvoted once?
A couple of days ago I suddenly got down voted on two of my old questions within seconds (which I thought was a little suspicious, since neither had had any activity for a long time, but it was just -...
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Do not auto-delete questions that have been undeleted
This question was closed, without answers, and no activity for at least a week, thus it was automatically deleted. Then, it came up on our Meta, and I decided to undelete it, to give more people the ...
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Should we really have RemoveDeadQuestions on smaller sites?
Related: Please undelete this question on String Theory
According to this post
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
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has no answers
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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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Is the Roomba broken? [duplicate]
I know that there is a system for auto-deletion of certain closed and unanswered questions, as described by Shog9 in "Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion", but it was my ...
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Algorithm for Community deletion of questions [duplicate]
Is the algorithm for Community deletion of questions documented anywhere? I'm interested in both the SO and MSO algorithms, in case they are different.
If it matters, the trigger for this question is ...
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Why is the Community user in a deletion war with a mod?
We have a closed question with 0 sum votes (+2/-2). It got deleted by the Community user. Fine.
Then came along DoubleAA (a mod) and undeleted it. Then comes Community and deletes it a few hour later....
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Are moderators able to post comments that are automatically deleted after x amount of time?
This comment reads the following:
If you're looking for the previous 33 comments, please see this meta thread instead. This comment will self-destruct in 48 hours. – Raven Dreamer♦
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Answers to a deleted question not deleted?
I just ran across this review item and immediately thought to myself "yes, that should be deleted." But before I recommended deletion, I took a quick look at the question.
What the hell? A red ...
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Can the system leave a deletion reason when it deletes a question?
A user asked why they were question banned; it turned out it (in part) it was because of deleted questions.
One of the deleted questions was deleted by the Community user. I'm aware it will delete ...
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Is Community♦ more eagerly auto-deleting than it should?
Today, Community♦ deleted this question. (10K only, obviously)
That's good, if you wonder. The question didn't add any value to the site.
But, as far as I could determine (my search-fu is weak, so I ...
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