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This question is a bad example of a question that should be kept around even though the site's policy towards these types of questions has changed.

It's got a lot of issues that keep it from being useful:

• Only one answer has been added since 2011. Other answers have not been curated to keep up with the times, as Yi Jiang points out.

• It has a really low number of views for being around for four years, 1.8 views per day (to include traffic that meta has driven with this question).

A historical lock won't help here (first, it doesn't even qualify), but second is that the content will be locked in time. Sure, it may be partially helpful today, but with no way to edit it, there's no telling how long it will be relevant.

The choices are simple:

1. Actively curate content that you're interested in to keep answers up to date
2. Recognize that some questions don't have enough velocity to keep them useful, and act accordingly.

If we're going to have a productive discussion about questions that should not be deleted, we should pick a better question. I agree that the discussion should be had, but this question isn't good enough to warrant a firestorm over the policy of moderators unilaterally deleting posts.

This question is a bad example of a question that should be kept around even though the site's policy towards these types of questions has changed.

It's got a lot of issues that keep it from being useful:

• Only one answer has been added since 2011. Other answers have not been curated to keep up with the times, as Yi Jiang points out.

• It has a really low number of views for being around for four years, 1.8 views per day (to include traffic that meta has driven with this question).

A historical lock won't help here (first, it doesn't even qualify), but second is that the content will be locked in time. Sure, it may be partially helpful today, but with no way to edit it, there's no telling how long it will be relevant.

The choices are simple:

1. Actively curate content that you're interested in to keep answers up to date
2. Recognize that some questions don't have enough velocity to keep them useful, and act accordingly.

If we're going to have a productive discussion about questions that should not be deleted, we should pick a better question. I agree that the discussion should be had, but this question isn't good enough to warrant a firestorm over the policy of moderators unilaterally deleting posts.

This question is a bad example of a question that should be kept around even though the site's policy towards these types of questions has changed.

It's got a lot of issues that keep it from being useful:

• Only one answer has been added since 2011. Other answers have not been curated to keep up with the times, as Yi Jiang points out.

• It has a really low number of views for being around for four years, 1.8 views per day (to include traffic that meta has driven with this question).

A historical lock won't help here (first, it doesn't even qualify), but second is that the content will be locked in time. Sure, it may be partially helpful today, but with no way to edit it, there's no telling how long it will be relevant.

The choices are simple:

1. Actively curate content that you're interested in to keep answers up to date
2. Recognize that some questions don't have enough velocity to keep them useful, and act accordingly.

If we're going to have a productive discussion about questions that should not be deleted, we should pick a better question. I agree that the discussion should be had, but this question isn't good enough to warrant a firestorm over the policy of moderators unilaterally deleting posts.

This question is a bad example of a question that should be kept around even though the site's policy towards these types of questions has changed.

It's got a lot of issues that keep it from being useful:

• Only one answer has been added since 2011. Other answers have not been curated to keep up with the times, as Yi Jiang points out.

• It has a really low number of views for being around for four years, 1.8 views per day (to include traffic that meta has driven with this question).

A historical lock won't help here (first, it doesn't even qualify), but second is that the content will be locked in time. Sure, it may be partially helpful today, but with no way to edit it, there's no telling how long it will be relevant.

The choices are simple:

1. Actively curate content that you're interested in to keep answers up to date
2. Recognize that some questions don't have enough velocity to keep them useful, and act accordingly.

If we're going to have a productive discussion about questions that should not be deleted, we should pick a better question. I agree that the discussion should be had, but this question isn't good enough to warrant a firestorm over the policy of moderators unilaterally deleting posts.

This question is a bad example of a question that should be kept around even though the site's policy towards these types of questions has changed.

It's got a lot of issues that keep it from being useful:

• Only one answer has been added since 2011. Other answers have not been curated to keep up with the times, as Yi Jiang points out.

• It has a really low number of views for being around for four years, 1.8 views per day (to include traffic that meta has driven with this question).

If we're going to have a productive discussion about questions that should not be deleted, we should pick a better question. I agree that the discussion should be had, but this question isn't good enough to warrant a firestorm over the policy of moderators unilaterally deleting posts.

This question is a bad example of a question that should be kept around even though the site's policy towards these types of questions has changed.

It's got a lot of issues that keep it from being useful:

• Only one answer has been added since 2011. Other answers have not been curated to keep up with the times, as Yi Jiang points out.

• It has a really low number of views for being around for four years, 1.8 views per day (to include traffic that meta has driven with this question).

A historical lock won't help here (first, it doesn't even qualify), but second is that the content will be locked in time. Sure, it may be partially helpful today, but with no way to edit it, there's no telling how long it will be relevant.

The choices are simple:

1. Actively curate content that you're interested in to keep answers up to date
2. Recognize that some questions don't have enough velocity to keep them useful, and act accordingly.

If we're going to have a productive discussion about questions that should not be deleted, we should pick a better question. I agree that the discussion should be had, but this question isn't good enough to warrant a firestorm over the policy of moderators unilaterally deleting posts.