I expected this post to be automatically protected by Community after three answers were deleted:
However, that was not the case. Upon further investigation and some help from other mods , it appears that Community did not want to protect it because two of those posts were from deleted/destroyed users.
Presumably, this is not the intended behavior since those two users were automatically deleted by the maintenance script. This problem was brought up before but the accepted answer there says that spam deletions count towards the threshold.
Do (should?) deleted answers from users who have been auto-deleted count towards the auto-protection threshold?
If (UserReputation1<50) And (UserReputation2<50) And (UserReputation3<50) Then (AutoProtect)
, however for deleted account the reputatioon is NULL, not zero, and as can be seen here, Null is not smaller than 50 hence the bug. Fix is as easy asIf (IsNull(UserReputation1, 0)<50) ...
as can be seen here.null
). You can also see the system failing in this respect when sorting answers when a question and its accepted answer were both posted by nonexistent users.