Timeline for a spate of deletions by "Community"
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 13, 2015 at 13:05 | comment | added | user9072 | @WillieWong re 1, I disagree a bit as it is not so clear SE would not consider turning off (or modifying) for some sites that part of the auto-delete script when a clear case would be made why this is desirable for some sites. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 12:01 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @WłodzimierzHolsztyński : as usual, two points. (1) We have absolutely zero control over the software. (2) In regards to your point 3, this is published behaviour of the software. If the user cannot be bothered to read the manual and upvote those question he enjoys, I think he has no right to complain when the question gets deleted. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 18:29 | comment | added | Włodzimierz Holsztyński | Decisions about ignoring (rather than deleting) questions should be left to USERS. It's WRONG for an automatic system to decide: 1. there is enough of disk to keep arbitrarily many questions; 2. sorts will tell you what you need about the questions, eg voting & reading statistics; 3. there can be users who enjoy questions of the deleted author, even if they didn't vote on the questions--they could always go back to the authors; furthermore, there can be a user interested in an author who (the user) doesn't exist today but may join MO--say--in a year, or five, from now. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 13:33 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @quid: I didn't say that "one vote will delete this", I just said that those are closed questions without an accepted answer and without votes. Which are almost eligible for auto-deletion. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | user9072 | @Asaf Thanks for adding the query; I was lazy. Some of those are what I meant (but I do not see why they are all eligible for auto-delete; some have high-scoring answers), and had in mind when writing recently that auto-del is not perfect. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 12:17 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Stefan: You can also use the search parameters. Only two of them are not eligible for autodelete today. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 11:59 | comment | added | user9072 | @StefanKohl the list you link to is really not the place where I would start to look. Actually, I think it is not such a good idea to start downvoting questions from +1 to 0 to get open questions deleted. There are plenty of closed questions that did not get deleted for some reason or other (for example a [low] positive score answer). If anything I would focus on those. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 10:28 | comment | added | user9072 | @YemonChoi I do check the delete queue from time to time, yet rarely as it seems indeed hardly anybody else does anymore. It is however in my opinion a wasted effort to vote to delete 2-5 days old closed question without answer and negative score. They will be auto-deleted after 9 days anyway. In fact I find such delete votes rather pollute the queue. On Mathematics there is a chat room to coordinate un/deletions; we could do the same. Maybe a new room is not needed we could use the editors' lounge. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 10:00 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | @YemonChoi: I think the autodeletion rules make sense -- if a question has score 0 and no answers after an entire year, then it is usually save to assume that it can be removed. Actually you can help cleaning up low-quality questions by going through the lists here or here and downvote everything which you think is not worth to be kept -- then it will be removed in the next autodeletion cycle (once per week or so). | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 0:49 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Several of those questions seem an order of magnitude more worthwhile than the crud which is about 2-5 days old and is sitting there in the delete queue with, it seems, hardly anyone other than me voting to delete... | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 0:48 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | But this kind of thing is why I don't want the front page having done and dusted answers/questions bumped! It is easy not to notice the questions if they get pushed off the front page! | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 0:46 | history | answered | François G. DoraisMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |