Questions tagged [automatic-deletion]
Questions about the automatic deletion of questions or answers, whether it be from receiving six spam/offensive flags, or from the "roomba" (Community ♦ automatically deleting low-scoring and closed questions).
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I would like to answer a question of mine which got auto-deleted
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79382328/crash-in-stdmake-exception-ptr-on-aix
Basically, I just want to add the following as an answer:
It seems to indeed have been XLClang's implementation of ...
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Please, add closed typo questions to Roomba!
Well, the title says everything and I know there are other questions around but I still want to revive this subject again in a hope things will change.
Typo questions attract easy answers within a few ...
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User's first ever post wrongly (in my opinion) auto-deleted for being spam/abusive [duplicate]
The revision history shows the original post before it was auto-deleted. No abuse is apparent and the only "spam" is a link to a book on Amazon. Why was this deleted?
https://stackoverflow....
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Roomba hasn't run for the past two weeks and over 2800 questions evaded it
I've noticed the Roomba hasn't run for the past two weeks at around 3:00AM UTC. As per https://stackoverflow.com/help/roomba an example is the following question that should have been deleted over 24 ...
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Some comments don't get deleted automatically/immediately on flagging
Some comments like "@username, thankyou" don't get deleted immediately on flagging them as NLN. Is it because it's "thankyou" and not "thank you"?
Can such comments be ...
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Why did Community delete a question that has a +3 score answer? [duplicate]
My answer to this question received 3 upvotes. Why did Community delete a question that has a positive-score answer?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30967013/using-input-and-print-in-the-same-line-...
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Should the Roomba take bookmarks into account? [duplicate]
About a month ago I asked a question on some technical aspect of C++, that went along these lines: "I read this and heard that, yet I have here what I believe to be a counter-example. What gives ?...
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Can someone help me understand how to improve this post?
This post
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66992043/how-to-detect-that-were-in-design-mode
was deleted.
I still think it is a useful question and a useful answer.
Some respondents were confused by ...
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How many times has the roomba overriden human votes?
As most readers here probably already know, there is a script that automatically deletes questions based on some criteria, known as the roomba script.
But this meta-question: “Community” bot deleted ...
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What happened on Stack Overflow on 31 May 2019?
I was analyzing the proportion of questions which received at least one answer within 48 hours, using Bigquery:
select da, avg(answered)
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(SELECT a.id, date(a.creation_date) as da, max(case when ...
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How long does an old question stay online after downvoting?
I have only one question on Stack Overflow and I answered it after researching myself.
After gaining some reputation here, I got sporadically downvotes on that question and even on the answer at ...
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Does meta prune poorly-received posts more often?
A few months ago (I think), I made a meta post asking if trackball should be burned. The consensus was "no", and I believe the post sat at -4 when last I saw it.
Yesterday I stumbled back onto the ...
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Post removed reputation increase
I am bit confused about what happened here. I had a question that had -4. causing a -8 reputation decrease. Today I got a +8 on my reputation and the reason given is removed. Do auto removed questions ...
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Roomba when all posts have a strictly negative score
This is a request for a new roomba rule.
Proposal: a roomba for negatively scored questions with all answers being negatively scored too
The following is the detailed proposal; conditions and naming ...
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Can we tweak the Roomba help article so it shows up in the Help search?
The Roomba is the cozy name for the automatic script that removes low scoring questions that are left unattended.
The Roomba has its own page in the Help center here.
However, if you try to search in ...
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Why do people delete-vote questions that are eligible for roomba?
Looking through posts with pending delete votes in moderation tools, I notice that a noticeable share of them are eligible for automatic deletion. E.g. today, there were two such questions:
https://...
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Roomba very low score answers
This is a request for a new type of roomba: a roomba on some answers instead of questions.
Proposal: a roomba for very low score answers
This is just a proposal, and conditions and naming can be ...
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Roomba ate my question, but I still want an answer. What now?
30 days ago, I asked Undo “Install Certificates.command”
. I thought it was a decent question, but it drew a downvote. Now Roomba has come along and deleted it.
What are askers supposed to do when ...
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How to handle a RemoveAbandonedQuestions post for a problem that still exits?
I have a question that was closed RemoveAbandonedQuestions that is still relevant (A solution would be useful and can be useful to other people).
Is there a way to reopen in? Do I reask it?
(The ...
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Will negative-scored duplicates with a zero-scored, non-accepted answer be Roomba'd?
I'm aware that the Roomba rules for dupes are different. For example, as I understand it, a zero-scored dupe with a zero-scored answer wouldn't ordinarily be Roomba'd like a question closed for a ...
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Roomba delete questions closed very long time ago for off-topic reasons
Active cleaners have the feelings that our scarce[1] deletion votes should be used for what Roomba can't handle. So my suggestion is for Roomba to help us more:
I suggest Roomba should automatically ...
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Accepted self-answers with a score of 0 or less shouldn't prevent a question from Roombaing
I recently encountered a question that had a score of -4 and had been put "on hold" as off-topic. However, the OP had written a self-answer and accepted it. Currently, the question won't Roomba, even ...
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Not understanding help files, case automatic deleted q/post
I had a question. The title was:
ReGina - 5.5.3 Scoping at work: the classic accumulator test - Perl example [closed]
I can see that it is automated closed. There was the message:
deleted by ...
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Why wasn't this question deleted?
This meta post inspired me to look at my downvotes to see if I should reverse any of them. While reviewing my downvotes I came upon this question: CSS doesn't seem to work in PHP
It seems to fit ...
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Closed question with an accepted self-answer is not deleted automatically [duplicate]
I think we have a potential loophole that stops a closed question being deleted automatically where the OP has answered and accepted their own answer.
A simple example is this question. Closed a ...
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