Answer by Shog9 for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
The following changes are live now: Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere† that they're not already linked, but...
View ArticleAnswer by Nicol Bolas for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
Closed, no answers, and no activity for at least a week (32K) Closed, no up-voted/accepted answers and no pending reopen votes (61K) Closed, no upvoted or accepted answers, scoring <= 0, no reopen...
View ArticleAnswer by Rachel for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
I'm not a big fan of automatic deletions because there's no oversight, and no warning to the user that their post went missing. But if you did increase the automatic deletion window to items older than...
View ArticleAnswer by Johannes Kuhn for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
I really love the idea that the early deletion for 20k users can only apply to certain topics like Spam Hate-Speech ... Kill that stuff immediately. (That is what early delete votes are for IMHO) But...
View ArticleAnswer by Manishearth for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
I like this. On sites like Physics, the community doesn't participate much in deletions (and we don't have enough active high reps anyway). As a mod, I could do it, but none of us have really felt the...
View ArticleAnswer by Brad Larson for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
If system-assisted early deletion is the tradeoff for removing the early delete votes of 20k users, I can get behind that. I'd probably be most comfortable with the third of your options, although I...
View ArticleAnswer by Ben Brocka for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
As a mod, more automatic deleting greatly lessens two of my biggest concerns as a mod: Getting rid of crap Having closed, clearly low quality content on the front page is embarrassing. So is having it...
View ArticleAnswer by Caleb for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature deletion
The plan of attack you outline sounds great. I assume the work you have done recently to mark duplicates differently than regular closed questions will factor into the auto-deletion routine, but make...
View ArticleAnswer by Robert Harvey for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
I think you should tighten the automatic deletion, using all three bullet points you outlined above, and show people their deleted questions (if they have a link). I've long thought that automatic...
View ArticleAnswer by Lance Roberts for Turbocharging the Roomba: solutions for premature...
Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! It's very dangerous to get into more auto-deleting. For now I'd just ask to please make sure and exclude Closed As Duplicates; let the stubs hangout and help searches.
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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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