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Q&A We should delete all old imported content.

I broadly agree, with two main caveats, one about what to delete, and one about how we go about it. By "what to delete", I'm looking at your point that: We may lose a few stray locally-grown an...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar ArtOfCode‭ · 2021-01-07T18:15:44Z (almost 4 years ago)
I broadly agree, with two main caveats, one about what to delete, and one about how we go about it.

By "what to delete", I'm looking at your point that:

> We may lose a few stray locally-grown answers to old questions

I haven't done the queries to confirm this, but I suspect that number is relatively small. I see no harm in identifying the posts where this has happened and keeping just those - deleting everything else.

However, more importantly, **this isn't our (Codidact's) decision to make**. We've always said our communities would be run by the people who use them, and we've stuck by that principle. I'm happy to delete imported posts, _if the communities that would be affected want that_. We'd be looking for consensus on meta for each community before we start any deletion, whether or not we keep natively-answered posts too.