most recent 30 from gaming.meta.stackexchange.com 2025-08-05T14:19:26Z https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/5166 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5166 24 Mad Scientist https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4103 2025-08-05T16:13:59Z 2025-08-05T08:48:06Z

<p>Closed questions, except for duplicates, are regularly deleted to clean up the site. I've done that often enough myself on the sites where I'm a moderator. But except for some extreme cases, I always try to leave the questions visible for long enough to give the community the opportunity to overturn the decision to close. My rough guideline is at least 12-24 hours for questions that I personally think have no chance of being reopened again. I tend to wait much longer for questions that have reopen votes, a reopening discussion in the comments or are otherwise in a rather grey area.</p> <p>The question that sparked this post is the following (10k-only): </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/78666/which-11-gaming-references-are-hidden-in-this-video">https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/78666/which-11-gaming-references-are-hidden-in-this-video</a> </li> </ul> <p>It's a question type that has been discussed extensively in recent times: identification questions that are not identify-this-game questions. One of the meta posts about that was also linked in a comment on that question. I don't want to argue here whether that question is on-topic or off-topic, but this type of question is at least somewhat controversial.</p> <p>This question was deleted by one user and a moderator only 14 minutes after it was closed. The question has one reopen vote, though that could have been from the owner of the question.</p> <p>I can't say whether questions are regularly deleted that quickly on this site as the tools for non-mods are just very limited for deleted questions. But that is somewhat the point of my post, deleting questions very quickly removes them from the view of the community, making a review of the closure nearly impossible.</p> <p>I'm not saying that no questions should ever be deleted immediately, but I'd reserve that treatment for questions that are so blatantly off-topic that they have absolutely no chance of ever being reopened.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5166/-/5168#5168 2 juan https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/14 2025-08-05T16:19:11Z 2025-08-05T16:27:44Z

<p>Fair enough, I undeleted it.</p> <p>I generally don't delete so fast (honestly I don't remember if I saw the closure time in this one), but I don't like to see off-topic questions in the front page, I hate broken windows.</p> <p><strike>I will delete it again if it remains closed. I like your estimate of 12-24 hours.</strike></p> <p>I will delete it again if it remains closed <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/138693/1782">after 48 hours or so</a>.</p>

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