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Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful
I noticed that questions exist on this network and are accessible that are unlikely to ever be very helpful, for example because they were marked as completely off-topic.
Examples
- Are international phone numbers available? in Power User
- For cleaning food and objects, power scrubber vs. Electric rotary toothbrush? in Physics
- What is the worst code you ever saw? in Software Development
The content license does not mean that there is an obligation to keep the content here and removing such content would increase the signal to noise ratio. I don't see much sense in keeping this content. We could therefore permanently remove it from the system.
But there are also questions that have a very low score (typically they are not very high quality with missing information) and often also no answers but aren't closed. With edits and answers they could potentially be converted to something useful, but that may not be very likely. The decision to keep or remove such content might be a bit more difficult.
However, cleaning up more regularly might also increase the appeal of the front pages of the individual sites (see recent discussion).
Should we regularly remove content we deem to be not useful at all?
If yes, what should be the criteria for that (close status, score, number of answers, life time)? Should it be done automatically (automatic cleaning robots) or rather manually (at least for now)? Where should the criteria for that be decided (for each community individually or network-wide)?
Searched for it on Meta but couldn't find anything for "automatic deletion".
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I personally like the way you are contributing(not for voting, re-editing posts and some other stuffs).. You may have seen somewhere that, only 2 people are working as coder in the Codidact organization. So it's taking huge time to build up things. I believe Ruby on rails is little bit harder that's why most of peoples can't contribute to code. I was also a contributor. All the things I understood after working on the organization that is, "maybe I can't understand how one page is linked with another one in ruby-on-rails". One of my friend, also said that, "after QPixel he hates ruby-on-rails" (not sure if I phrased correctly). ~ I said it cause you were looking for automatic deletion.
Everyone thinks deleting poor questions may help to speed up the growth of the community. But a staff (it's more than 3 months so I don't remember if that was staff or someone else) said, "removing all imported contents will be helpful cause some of our communities are getting down for copyright-infringement but what can we do if someone had edited and done some effort on that post?"
We could therefore permanently remove it from the system.
Removing something from database permanently is never helpful. Cause there is a report in Writing which had happened for "data error". We can remove thing softly- the way we are doing now.
Usually, all the bad posts are posting by some specific users. When we say something by mentioning them, then they don't reply to our messages. I believe we should have discussion with them. It's OK not to know things but deleting their contents without informing them isn't really a good idea. So I always suggest to discuss with those persons. I sometimes worry why they don't want to listen to us.
I had asked in Discord once when do a moderator remove the participate and participate everywhere ability, no one replied. But if we revoke those abilities then they might come to us to discuss (I don't know even I don't think anyone will listen to me but all the things I say that is I don't care). Some may say to suspend them, I said in the answer why suspending is never helpful.
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