Timeline for Could anyone explain me why my question was deleted?
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| Jan 26, 2019 at 15:02 | vote | accept | Unknown User | ||
| Jan 25, 2019 at 13:10 | comment | added | Oli Mod | There's a lot to unpack there. I don't think deleters are malevolent in any way... I just think that as the upper echelon of features open up to users, they get distracted by them. It sustains a lie that moderation is more important than posting an answer because a 1-rep user can do that. There are important review tasks (edits, first posts, things that make our other users better) but delete isn't one of them. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 13:07 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @pomsky Phrases like "clean up" highlight the problem. It's a website, not a bedroom. Our raison d'être is helping people, getting them an answer. Closed questions don't stop that in any way. The delete queue is busywork, carried out by experienced users who think they're doing something important because it's a feature that's retained for high reputation users. The absolute best thing those users could do is triage and answer the new questions. It's a travesty that the gamification of administrative tasks ends up undermining the site. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 9:27 | comment | added | pomsky | There is even a user who had the nickname "user who upvotes all downvoted posts" (or something close)! :-\ | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 9:17 | comment | added | pomsky | Could you please expand upon "they're doing nobody any favours by voting to delete soft issue..."? A good number of questions (mostly by new users) get closed every single day as unclear / off-topic / opinion based / too broad etc. and almost always they're abandoned. Manually deleting such questions to clean up the site is not necessarily a useless thing imo as automatic removal take some time. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, a question with positive score is not auto-removed. And as I observed, sympathy/pity upvotes on questions happen a lot here at AU. | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 13:45 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |