Revisions to Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?

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Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 99 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed.

This check is run every day across all sites.

The particular script which applied to a given question is shown in the timeline entry for its deletion, in the "comment" column:

Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed.

This check is run every day across all sites.

The particular script which applied to a given question is shown in the timeline entry for its deletion, in the "comment" column:

Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed.

This check is run every day across all sites.

The particular script which applied to a given question is shown in the timeline entry for its deletion, in the "comment" column:

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edited Dec 1, 2022 at 22:52

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Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed:

.

This check is run every day across all sites.

The particular script which applied to a given question is shown in the timeline entry for its deletion, in the "comment" column:

Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed:

This check is run every day across all sites.

Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed.

This check is run every day across all sites.

The particular script which applied to a given question is shown in the timeline entry for its deletion, in the "comment" column:

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314188/do-not-use-code-formatting-for-the-number-of-days-on-the-roomba-help-center-pa

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edited Dec 1, 2022 at 22:29

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Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 3030 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 99 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed:

This check is run every day across all sites.

Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed:

This check is run every day across all sites.

Abandoned, unanswered questions can be a nuisance for readers when they appear in search results. While every question deserves a chance to be answered, at some point the annoyance to those searching for a solution outweighs the increasingly small chance that an answer will be provided.

For this reason, the Community user will automatically delete old abandoned / dead questions in the following circumstances:

If the question is more than 30 days old, and ...

has −1 or lower score
has no answers
is not locked
has not been migrated from another site

...or...

it was closed and migrated to a different site (i.e. it is a migration stub)

...or...

it was migrated from a different site, and then rejected

... it will be automatically deleted. Internally, these are termed "dead" questions (RemoveDeadQuestions, RemoveMigrationStubs in the case of a migration stub, or RemoveRejectedMigrations in the case of a rejected migration).

For this criterion only, when calculating the question's score, only downvotes that were cast more than two days ago are considered. This is to prevent serial downvotes from causing automatic deletions and allow the voting fraud scripts to run before the checks above run.

If the question is more than 365 days old, and ...

has a score of 0 or less, or a score of 1 or less in case the owner's account is deleted
has no answers
is not locked
has view count <= the age of the question in days times 1.5
has 1 or 0 comments
isn't on a meta site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned" questions (RemoveAbandonedQuestions).

These checks are run every week across all sites.

If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...

not closed as a duplicate
has a score of 0 or less
is not locked
has no answers with a score > 0
has no accepted answer
has no pending reopen votes
has not been edited in the past 9 days
has not been migrated from another site

... it will be automatically deleted. These are "abandoned closed", and show as RemoveAbandonedClosed:

This check is run every day across all sites.

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match with help page

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edited Apr 19, 2018 at 21:45

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Per https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/304244, meta sites aren't subject to RemoveAbandonedQuestions.

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replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/

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Update image, add key for community deletion reasons (which are now shown, http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/267439)

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Added internal terms that are relevant to http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/296609/603977

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Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration

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Migration of MSO links to MSE links

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Removed redundant Community user reference. Also, who calls it a "community mod"? Last I checked, that meant something different...

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Explicity mention Community Mod so the question shows up in Google / SE searches

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Added link to the official meta post, which usually contains more up-to-date information the this post. (It's not a good idea to have this information in two places anyways...)

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Cover new / overlooked criteria, since this is sort of the canonical post for automatic deletions (these are also documented in the deletion faq however)

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