Automatic deletion is useful and great on main sites, but on child metas it deletes my negatively voted feature-requests. >:(
Can it be turned off for child metas?
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There are a seemingly-endless number of bad ideas; we don't really need to archive them.
Of course... If someone writes up a really good explanation for why an idea is bad, that can be worth keeping around.
So if you see a meta question you don't want lost, write a good answer to it.
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2Meh. They'll just be duplicated. It doesn't cause any harm if it's so useless that nobody bumps it…– bjb568Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 21:00
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5Yup, and there is even a shiny gold badge encouraging exactly this. Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 21:00
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3Can it at least be not rerumba'd when it was rumba'd then undeleted?– bjb568Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 21:02
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1Absolutely, @bjb568! ...If you answer it after undeleting it, that is.– Shog9Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 21:07
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Now if I could find that question about vote confidence so I could add an answer…– bjb568Commented Dec 5, 2014 at 21:10
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3Can this please be reconsidered? This can result in perfectly reasonable posts getting deleted, such as arcane bug reports and controversial discussions. Another employee once upvoted such a question at the same time as undeleting it because of this behavior. Commented Jan 19, 2019 at 20:49
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A very minor cosmetic bug in a browser we're not going to be able to support much longer doesn't strike me as worth spending time on, @sonic. Maybe I'm wrong, but nothing in your report suggests otherwise. For next time, I recommend referring to this guide when reporting bugs that you want to see fixed: sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/1920/…– Shog9Commented Jan 20, 2019 at 0:14
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1@Shog9 How about the other discussion I linked there? The one that was undeleted and upvoted by Tim Post in order to bypass the deletion criteria on a valid question? Commented Jan 20, 2019 at 0:23
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The discussion that, in the nearly three months since it was undeleted, has yet to attract any answers, any comments, any votes... Anything even remotely similar to a "discussion"? I donno, @Sonic... I think you can figure that one out for yourself.– Shog9Commented Jan 20, 2019 at 0:26
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1@Shog9 It hasn't been bumped in the time after the undeletion, so it's natural that it hasn't received any attention yet. (I deleted my prior comment since I realized you were referring to the time after the undeletion.) Commented Jan 20, 2019 at 0:29