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 if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.
Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.
Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:
- Closed more than 9 days ago
- Not closed as a duplicate
- Score <= 0
- Not locked
- No answers with a score > 0
- No accepted answer
- No pending reopen votes
- No edits in the past 9 days
For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDEview results from SEDE.
† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.