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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Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
A couple weeks ago, I asked for help: How can we stop premature deletion?
And I got some fantastic responses. A big thanks to everyone who participated in that discussion - you're the reason I don't ...
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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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Is it okay to send old questions to doom?
Given this context:
If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...
has -1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
... it will be automatically deleted.
I have downvoted some 30-odd ...
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Making auto delete process more user friendly
For over a year now, there is an auto delete process in place that is taking care of old abandoned / dead questions and removing them. All good and I agree this should keep going to keep the place ...
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When a deleted answer get pruned and gone forever? [closed]
I recently deleted an answer of mine in a question on Super User as the current answer proved mine to be false and, as such, maybe even harmful. Now, I'd like to offer @Nathan a +50 bounty, which I ...
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Automatically delete old closed questions, regardless of question score
According to https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/141361, we automatically delete old question with negative/0/1 scores (depending on time passed) and no answers.
I'd like to suggest extending ...
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Any way to save my poor, lonely question?
For several months I have had 5 questions, but I just noticed that I was now down to 4. I was able to go to the Data Explorer and find the Id of the missing question and undelete it, but I'm concerned ...
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Automatic deletion of a question
Is there any automatic deletion of a question in place? I saw the I did it for the lulz question and figured this would get deleted right away, but it didn't. Seems like after about -10 its probably ...
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Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?
Related to Meta Super User efforts:
Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
and Meta Server Fault efforts:
Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions
We already auto-remove ...
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Should closed questions that are negatively voted be automatically deleted?
When I google a programming question and the search results bring a Stack Overflow link, I always click that link. That’s because I know that (1) it is very likely that there will be good answers to ...
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