Timeline for Should we try to re-start manual deletions or is the situation fine anyway?
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | user9072 | @GilKalai very well. Only, for somebody to notice, somebody has to look through the lists on the deletion page (else one hardly will notice). Whether or not users should feel some motivation to do this is a main point of the discussion. On the other point: you might not know, but there is a dedicated list of undelete votes cast, to manually repost the votes would simply duplicate something that exists and is automatically updated. Better let us not invent a 2nd layer of bureaucracy. (Also, questions like the one above getting deleted is rather frequent.) | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 16:24 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | In case that somebody notice an unjustified automatic deletion I suppose he can post a request to undelete as an answer to "Requests for reopen votes". Other than that, as I said, I see no reasons now for manual deletions. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 9:29 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2015 at 8:29 | comment | added | user9072 | @GilKalai I explained why I did not really want to link, but the situation now is reversed anyway as my post got the votes (see earlier comments): but here are the links Q1 [10k+] and Q2 No, Q2 was not closed, in fact this was mentioned in my hint. I added some more details on auto-del in my post (the summary I gave was not so good) in addition to the link I had given, explaining the rules. Open question do get deleted, even open question that were never down-voted. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 7:17 | comment | added | user642796 | @GilKalai Details of automatic deletion can be found here. It is very rare for postively-scored questions to be automatically deleted, though there are circumstances where open but non-positively-scored questions can be deleted. For negatively-scored, unanswered questions it can happen after 30 days. For zero-scored (or 1-scored if the owner is deleted), unanswered (and essentially "forgotten") questions it can only happen after 365 days. So if you see a question that you think should remain on the site, upvote it. | |
| Apr 26, 2015 at 4:45 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | Thanks for the examples, Quid. Can you add links to the two questions? Certainly Q2 should be undeleted. Was it closed? Can it be automatically deleted without being closed earlier? Certainly, when questions are closed by mistake and then deleted I support undeleteing and unclosing them. In any case the automatic deletion should NOT apply to open questions. | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | user9072 | Thanks for the vote @Lucia. On the script: I agree that it might make sense to see if something can be done to adapt the 365-days script. I think it is not well-tuned for highly specialized mid-sized sites such as MO. For the large ones it seems necessary and for the small ones it will rarely cause an issue, but in the middle it is not so great. (I will check if I find earlier discussions on Meta Stack Exchange) | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 23:24 | comment | added | Lucia | Maybe it's worth exploring if the auto delete criteria can be adjusted a bit? E.g. by not deleting any question that has no downvotes, even if it hasn't attracted interest yet. Or alternatively, to make sure that the deletion protocol becomes widely known so that people vote questions up a little more generously than seems currently to be the case. | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 23:20 | comment | added | Lucia | Good example. I cast the third vote to undelete. | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | user9072 | I apologize in case the authors' of the quoted posts should be unhappy with them being used as examples (I do not link or give names on purpose). This goes especially for Q1. Let me stress it was a "first question" and I do not see much problem with it being asked, and perhaps even answered, but maybe we do not need to keep it forever. | |
| Apr 25, 2015 at 22:37 | history | answered | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |