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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why is the script for deletion called Roomba?
In many posts I see that the script for automatic post deletion is called Roomba:
Turn off the roomba for child meta sites
Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
Lost 5 questions ...
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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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How can I prevent my questions from being removed by roomba (Stack Exchange's automated question deletion system) after a user was removed?
The removal of a user might result in the loss of upvotes on some of my questions, which might in turn result in roomba* (Stack Exchange's automated question deletion system) deleting some of my ...
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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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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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Modify the 'has 1 or 0 comments' requirement for 'RemoveAbandonedQuestions' script
From the help center, auto-delete section (emphasis is mine):
If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...
has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 and a deleted owner
has no answers
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