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Q&A Regular deletion (roomba) of content unlikely to ever be useful

I purpose auto removing bad questions, after a given grace period But, this requires a definition of a bad question. What's a bad question ? While that seems like a very subjective question, tha...

posted 2y ago by 4015.alt‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar 4015.alt‭ · 2021-12-14T19:44:51Z (over 2 years ago)
I purpose **auto removing bad questions**, after a given grace period

But, this requires a definition of a bad question.

What's a bad question ?

While that seems like a very subjective question, that doesn't mean it can't be answered somehow objectively 

- initially, it's any question that shouldn't be in a community according to its users

- which is any question with a very **low score** (as all the 3 examples in the OQ)

- a low score: my be defined as a score in the lower 5% of the scores globally, or in a community, or just as a constant LS, so that we can have something like

```
if(question.score < LS)
    question.init_removal_process()
``` 

We may then:

- add to that some other factors to initiate the removal process, 

- use a hidden score for a question value that take on account how much it was reached, give more weight to upvotes than downvotes, check if it had answers or no, ect.. instead of 
`question.score = up_votes - down_votes`

- make the process a bit less robotic, by notifying the poster and/or a community mode sometime before the post removal 

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Note 1: By removing I mean make it invisible, unindexable and unreachable,  (which can be done softly)

Note 2: Bad, is very subjective, and a badly posed/received question may be improved, or perceived differently by others. So whatever, the definition that we chose, it should be flexible and lenient 

Note 3: Among the 3 example questions, there is only one that I wholeheartedly agree that it shouldn't be in a serious QnA website, even before opening it. and it's the one with the lowest score