Timeline for Rationale for moderator deletion of a non-spammy, off-topic question
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| Jul 20, 2021 at 8:05 | comment | added | YCor | In some cases, quick deletion (which moderators can accelerate) has the advantage of avoiding other users posting answers to such (clearly) off-topic question. In this case, deletion occurred too late anyway. | |
| Jul 16, 2021 at 18:05 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | While I agree that the question is not suitable for MO, it could be suggested to the OP to repost it at one of the History sites on SE. | |
| Jul 16, 2021 at 2:05 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jul 15, 2021 at 15:48 | vote | accept | Carlo Beenakker | ||
| Jul 15, 2021 at 14:12 | answer | added | Todd TrimbleMod | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 8:37 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Since you said that "moderators routinely delete spammy or offensive questions" I will just point out that this seems to be a misconception. Deleting spam and rude/abusive posts is one of the things which regular users can (and should) do, they do not actually need involvement of a moderator. More details can be found here: What should I do when I see a spam post on MO? (Of course, occasionally a moderator can spot such post before there are enough flags - but we cannot expect the mods to be here 24/7.) | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 7:44 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | If we look at the 2020 stats, that post says that there were 354 deletions by the mods and 8027 deletions by the MO users. (The footnote says that these numbers do not include auto-deleted posts.) | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 7:40 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | From the message in chat, it seems that in this case the request to delete might quite likely come from the OP. (They asked about that in chat - moderators can confirm whether the OP indeed flagged the question asking for deletion.) As a side note, this reminded me of an old quid's post: Should we try to re-start manual deletions or is the situation fine anyway? | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 7:35 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2021 at 7:25 | history | asked | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |