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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 honestly couldn't find anything as an example worth saving even in your second option's query.

I'm a big fan of the change in closed question wording to emphasize editing questions into shape and better explanations for why questions were closed, but we have to help that out by making sure that questions which could possibly be redeemed live long to have a chance. Removing 20k early deletion votes is one way to keep some of these alive longer, and you can feel safe that bad questions you forget to return to can be caught by the safety net. Really terrible stuff can still be flagged (like it usually is today) and moderators can remove those exceptional cases earlier.

One request I would have is to change the wording on the page people get when visiting a deleted question. Currently, that page reads (to <10k users):

This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation. Please refer to the FAQ for possible explanations why a question might be removed.

This makes it seem like every deleted question was removed by moderators. This question is an example of the kind of misunderstanding that can occur as a result. Now, in that case the ability for someone to see their own deleted question would have prevented that part of the problem. Still, I think the wording here could be improved for other outside visitors (or those who answered a now-deleted question), particularly if the system is going to be deleting more of these for us.

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 honestly couldn't find anything as an example worth saving even in your second option's query.

I'm a big fan of the change in closed question wording to emphasize editing questions into shape and better explanations for why questions were closed, but we have to help that out by making sure that questions which could possibly be redeemed live long to have a chance. Removing 20k early deletion votes is one way to keep some of these alive longer, and you can feel safe that bad questions you forget to return to can be caught by the safety net. Really terrible stuff can still be flagged (like it usually is today) and moderators can remove those exceptional cases earlier.

One request I would have is to change the wording on the page people get when visiting a deleted question. Currently, that page reads (to <10k users):

This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation. Please refer to the FAQ for possible explanations why a question might be removed.

This makes it seem like every deleted question was removed by moderators. This question is an example of the kind of misunderstanding that can occur as a result. Now, in that case the ability for someone to see their own deleted question would have prevented that part of the problem. Still, I think the wording here could be improved for other outside visitors (or those who answered a now-deleted question), particularly if the system is going to be deleting more of these for us.

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 honestly couldn't find anything as an example worth saving even in your second option's query.

I'm a big fan of the change in closed question wording to emphasize editing questions into shape and better explanations for why questions were closed, but we have to help that out by making sure that questions which could possibly be redeemed live long to have a chance. Removing 20k early deletion votes is one way to keep some of these alive longer, and you can feel safe that bad questions you forget to return to can be caught by the safety net. Really terrible stuff can still be flagged (like it usually is today) and moderators can remove those exceptional cases earlier.

One request I would have is to change the wording on the page people get when visiting a deleted question. Currently, that page reads (to <10k users):

This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation. Please refer to the FAQ for possible explanations why a question might be removed.

This makes it seem like every deleted question was removed by moderators. This question is an example of the kind of misunderstanding that can occur as a result. Now, in that case the ability for someone to see their own deleted question would have prevented that part of the problem. Still, I think the wording here could be improved for other outside visitors (or those who answered a now-deleted question), particularly if the system is going to be deleting more of these for us.

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 honestly couldn't find anything as an example worth saving even in your second option's query.

I'm a big fan of the change in closed question wording to emphasize editing questions into shape and better explanations for why questions were closed, but we have to help that out by making sure that questions which could possibly be redeemed live long to have a chance. Removing 20k early deletion votes is one way to keep some of these alive longer, and you can feel safe that bad questions you forget to return to can be caught by the safety net. Really terrible stuff can still be flagged (like it usually is today) and moderators can remove those exceptional cases earlier.

One request I would have is to change the wording on the page people get when visiting a deleted question. Currently, that page reads (to <10k users):

This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation. Please refer to the FAQ for possible explanations why a question might be removed.

This makes it seem like every deleted question was removed by moderators. This question is an example of the kind of misunderstanding that can occur as a result. Now, in that case the ability for someone to see their own deleted question would have prevented that part of the problem. Still, I think the wording here could be improved for other outside visitors (or those who answered a now-deleted question), particularly if the system is going to be deleting more of these for us.

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 honestly couldn't find anything as an example worth saving even in your second option's query.

I'm a big fan of the change in closed question wording to emphasize editing questions into shape and better explanations for why questions were closed, but we have to help that out by making sure that questions which could possibly be redeemed live long to have a chance. Removing 20k early deletion votes is one way to keep some of these alive longer, and you can feel safe that bad questions you forget to return to can be caught by the safety net. Really terrible stuff can still be flagged (like it usually is today) and moderators can remove those exceptional cases earlier.

One request I would have is to change the wording on the page people get when visiting a deleted question. Currently, that page reads (to <10k users):

This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation. Please refer to the FAQ for possible explanations why a question might be removed.

This makes it seem like every deleted question was removed by moderators. This question is an example of the kind of misunderstanding that can occur as a result. Now, in that case the ability for someone to see their own deleted question would have prevented that part of the problem. Still, I think the wording here could be improved for other outside visitors (or those who answered a now-deleted question), particularly if the system is going to be deleting more of these for us.

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 honestly couldn't find anything as an example worth saving even in your second option's query.

I'm a big fan of the change in closed question wording to emphasize editing questions into shape and better explanations for why questions were closed, but we have to help that out by making sure that questions which could possibly be redeemed live long to have a chance. Removing 20k early deletion votes is one way to keep some of these alive longer, and you can feel safe that bad questions you forget to return to can be caught by the safety net. Really terrible stuff can still be flagged (like it usually is today) and moderators can remove those exceptional cases earlier.

One request I would have is to change the wording on the page people get when visiting a deleted question. Currently, that page reads (to <10k users):

This question was removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation. Please refer to the FAQ for possible explanations why a question might be removed.

This makes it seem like every deleted question was removed by moderators. This question is an example of the kind of misunderstanding that can occur as a result. Now, in that case the ability for someone to see their own deleted question would have prevented that part of the problem. Still, I think the wording here could be improved for other outside visitors (or those who answered a now-deleted question), particularly if the system is going to be deleting more of these for us.