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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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), ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How should we handle questions that have been reposted after being deleted due to one downvote + SE's automated process to remove questions?
How should we handle questions that:
have been reposted after being deleted due to one downvote + Stack Exchange's automated process to remove questions?
received no comments (or all comments were ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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Question with an active bounty was mistakenly deleted by the Roomba
How does Canada's radiotelescope CHIME manage polarization-dependent apodization of the fast f/0.25 optics? was previously automatically deleted RemoveAbandonedQuestions and I'd recently found it with ...
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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 ...
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Active bounty didn't prevent automatic deletion [duplicate]
According to Prevent questions with bounty from being auto-deleted an active bounty should prevent automatic deletion:
We agree, questions that contain an active bounty should not be eligible for ...
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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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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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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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