Timeline for Why were some historical non-constructive questions undeleted?
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| Mar 7, 2012 at 19:29 | comment | added | user102937 | @Aarobot: Ultimately, I think it's best that the community is allowed to make these decisions, not the moderators. The new delete rules are an attempt to balance this process, so that the moderators can stay out of the business of being proxies for people who want to decide the fate of these questions with a single moderator flag. | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 19:28 | comment | added | Aarobot | @RobertHarvey: You'd think so, but in Joel's own words, the fact that people like it is apparently sufficient justification. Unless he's implying that anything that's liked has value, but that extension is pretty easy to disprove. | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 19:25 | comment | added | user102937 | @Aarobot: That's the only reason why a "Not Constructive" post would get resurrected. Nobody disagrees that these questions are out of scope for the site. The only discussion has ever been around whether their intrinsic value to the community outweighs their off-topic-ness. | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 19:24 | comment | added | Aarobot | @RobertHarvey: After having read/listened to what little the SE employees have had to say about it (including the recent "podcast"), it's not apparent to me at all that this was in fact the reason. I heard several statements around (a) inbound links, (b) votes and (c) page views, but little if anything substantive about the value of their content. | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 19:18 | comment | added | user102937 | @Aarobot: Read the last sentence in my answer. Nobody was warned privately AFAIK, and they didn't discuss it with the mods first, which is fine with me; I rarely discuss my moderator decisions with the community unless they bring them up on meta. Note that the "Single Most Influential Book" question had delete votes cast against it by 15 community members, which qualifies it for deletion under the new rules anyway. The SE team still has the final say. | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 19:10 | comment | added | Aarobot | This explains how it was done (which we already know) but not why it was done (which the question asked), and especially why it was done in this particular fashion, without warning or discussion - although maybe they warned you privately, I don't know. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 22:45 | comment | added | Adam Rackis | @Andrew - Jon Skeet is not a level in the hierarchy; Jon Skeet is the hierarchy. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 21:44 | comment | added | Andrew Barber | Just to hopefully derail this into another meme's area... I notice your hierarchy conspicuously is missing The Skeet. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 20:01 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey And… what… makes… you… assume… that… he… has… replied? | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 19:26 | comment | added | user102937 | @Gilles: And... what... did... he... say? | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 19:22 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey I did. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 19:10 | comment | added | user102937 | @Gilles: You would have to ask the person who undeleted the question about that specifically. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 19:09 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @RobertHarvey I saw. It's conspicuously missing any explanation of what “the value of their content” may be. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 18:22 | comment | added | user102937 | @MichaelMrozek: You didn't see the last sentence in my answer? | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | Michael Mrozek | This answer seems wildly useless. "They were undeleted because SE employees are better than you". Obviously they can undelete whatever they want -- the question is why they undeleted it | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 6:11 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | Note that reversals of this kind are exceptionally rare... must've been due to a dip in adsense because of @casperOne. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 2:04 | history | edited | user102937 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2012 at 1:58 | history | answered | user102937 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |