Some stats from Stack Overflow Questions with no answers: 75,422 / 1m+ Questions with no answers and score > 0: 12,705 / 1m+ Questions with no answers and score < 0: 2,016 / 1m+ Questions with no answers created more than 30 days ago: 64,717 / 1m+ Questions with no answers created more than 120 days ago: 39,915 / 1m+ Questions with no answers and score < 0 created more than 30 days ago: [1,631 / 1m+][1] oldest zero answer question in the system: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87110 Based on this data, **I am only comfortable auto-deleting the negatively voted, zero answer questions more than 30 days old**. These are basically complete crap, and they're a tiny minority of questions anyway. [1]: http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/13467/non-deleted-questions-with-no-answers-and-a-negative-score