most recent 30 from gaming.meta.stackexchange.com 2025-08-05T15:43:34Z https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/deleted-questions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/17534 15 galacticninja https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4797 2025-08-05T14:17:46Z 2025-08-05T04:00:58Z

<p>Our community has long been concerned about how the site's automated deletion scripts (aka Roomba) handle &quot;abandoned&quot; questions, as lamented in the 2023 meta post <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16931/4797">Is the automatic deletion of &quot;abandoned&quot; questions a good thing?</a> These are typically questions about older or more obscure games that receive zero votes, a score of zero, <em>and</em> have a low view count. Based on the votes on that post, the community largely agrees this is an issue.</p> <p>Previously, Roomba's criteria couldn't be modified, but now there's good news! As of June 26, 2025, <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/411021/162827" title="Decrease the required view count to prevent Roomba deletion when score = 0 on smaller sites">SE has introduced a new feature that allows Community Managers to customize auto-deletion criteria</a> for SE sites. According to a CM, communities that want adjustments should discuss the matter on their Meta site, reach consensus, and then tag the discussion with <a href="/questions/tagged/status-review" class="s-tag post-tag s-tag__moderator moderator-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;status-review&#39;" aria-label="show questions tagged &#39;status-review&#39;" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-status-review-tooltip-container" data-tag-menu-origin="Unknown">status-review</a> to notify the CMs for implementation.</p> <p>For reference, here are the default settings for SE's <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/162827">automated cleanup scripts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The system will <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006">automatically delete</a> unlocked, unanswered questions older than 365 days on main (non-meta) sites, that have a score of zero (or have a score of 1 and the owner's account is deleted), have fewer than 1.5 views per day on average, and fewer than two comments. (shown as &quot;Scheduled: RemoveAbandonedQuestions&quot; in the question timeline)</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/411021/162827" title="Decrease the required view count to prevent Roomba deletion when score = 0 on smaller sites">SE has created site-specific settings</a> that allow us to modify:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>The multiplier: “has view count &lt;= the age of the question in days times [XXX].&quot;</li> <li>The number of days: Adjusting the time until a post becomes eligible for Community user deletion (defaults to XXX days).</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>Should we request more lenient auto-deletion criteria for Arqade? If so, what specific settings should we propose?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16931 15 Stevoisiak https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/181240 2025-08-05T02:29:47Z 2025-08-05T11:20:37Z

<p>When reviewing my profile, I noticed I have around 30 seemingly on-topic questions with a neutral score that had been deleted by the Community user. Reviewing the <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/help/auto-deleted-questions">deleted questions FAQ</a>, I realized these questions had been deleted because they were 365 days old with 0 votes, 0 answers, and low traffic.</p> <p>Looking at my own posts, many of these deleted questions seem to be about older or more obscure games. (Ex: <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/311355/what-determines-the-first-artifact-in-lifeline-2">Lifeline 2</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/330258/what-does-the-warning-siren-mean">Alien Crush Returns</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/336431/what-do-the-dotted-lines-on-the-map-mean">Vignettes</a>, <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/343841/how-do-i-dive-for-a-loose-ball">NBA Street</a>). I added undelete votes to a few of these questions in hopes of getting them reviewed, but it seems nobody else has voted on them.</p> <p>As someone who enjoys seeking out overlooked questions, I wonder how many perfectly valid questions have been marked &quot;abandoned&quot; and deleted. One of my favorite aspects of this site is how questions can be asked about any game, no matter how obscure, and potentially get answered years later.</p> <p>As traffic on Arqade declines, is the automatic deletion of 0 score, 0 answer questions a good thing for the site?</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/NcxLQ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/NcxLQ.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/17228 5 Otakuwu https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/310365 2025-08-05T23:00:14Z 2025-08-05T23:16:39Z

<p>I recently <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/409544/310365">answered a question</a>. It bombed horribly, as I’m sure everyone knows by now, because the sources I used blatantly lied, and I couldn’t test for myself.</p> <p>Should I just delete the answer?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16546 -3 BCLC https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/119786 2025-08-05T05:17:07Z 2025-08-05T13:34:42Z

<p>Re <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/399388/when-does-do-a-champion-s-defend-vs-start-from-scratch-difference-between-ch">When does/do a champion/s 'defend' vs start from scratch? Difference between 'champion' and '(recurring) tournament winner'?</a></p> <p><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/7639/sorean">Sorean</a> suggests</p> <blockquote> <p>This is probably better suited for english.stackexchange.com or linguistics.stackexchange.com The question (as I read it) is more about asking about word usage in scenarios rather than anything to do with video games/esports specifically.</p> </blockquote> <p>Fine I suppose maybe question #2 (see below) but question #1 maybe ok?</p> <p>I mean to ask like... For whatever gaming championships there are csgo, valorant, LoL, DotA, etc, sometimes champions will get full privilege, partial privilege and no privilege.</p> <p>2 questions:</p> <ol> <li><p>How does any federation of any game decide which of the 3 privileges a champion gets?</p> </li> <li><p>Sometimes tournaments are called championships. Sometimes tournaments have privilege for the previous tournament winner/championship. What is the point of calling a tournament a championship if the champion doesn't have any privilege?</p> </li> </ol> <p><strong>Question for this meta post</strong>: How do you suggest I go about asking the above?</p> <p>Guess re my question #1: I believe this is on-topic. Afaik, csgo champions get no privilege at all. Are all csgo championships like this? What about valorant? LoL? DotA? If there's even a single tournament of a single game on-topic in this SE site, then I wanna know what's up. And if they're all the same (no championship privilege) then why?</p> <p>Guess re my question #2: I...guess this is on-topic. And if so, then well I thought #2 would be like an easy to follow up to #1 but well guess I'll have to split it?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15371 1 Alan H. https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/19589 2025-08-05T20:23:22Z 2025-08-05T23:34:52Z

<p>Coincidentally, I became re-interested in an unanswered question just as it was automatically deleted (for inactivity, I assume).</p> <p>It’s here: <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/358689/in-tortuga-team-s-spaceland-what-determines-when-turrets-appear">https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/358689/in-tortuga-team-s-spaceland-what-determines-when-turrets-appear</a></p> <p>I might even put a bounty on it.</p> <p>Undelete votes are welcome. Thanks.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15131 -5 Crad87 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/251763 2025-08-05T18:31:36Z 2025-08-05T02:37:42Z

<p>I've asked about five questions on this site, and I occasionally check back to see if there is an answer yet, but somebody has usually deleted it. They say it's because there are similar questions, but they're not the exact question that I'm asking. </p> <p>I just find this very pointless, and a waste of my time. Who can I get a hold of to find out why my questions keep getting deleted? I thought they were pretty valuable questions that did not have answers like other people's questions.</p> <p>What's the point of having a site to find out information, if everybody's just going to delete my questions?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15074 1 Ryan https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/181708 2025-08-05T00:17:38Z 2025-08-05T00:26:07Z

<p>I'm losing my mind.</p> <p>On 2025-08-05 I posted <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/comments/dxuldg/which_online_games_dont_require_servers_and_are/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this question</a> to Reddit (which STILL has no responses) <em>after</em> I'd already posted the same question somewhere else* that DID attract some helpful responses.</p> <p>*I'm 95% sure it was here on Arqade, but I can't find the question, and <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-questions/181708">https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/recently-deleted-questions/181708</a> says that deleted questions would be totally gone after 60 days.</p> <p>Is an admin here allowed to see questions of mine that have been deleted from back then?</p> <p>If so, would you mind sharing its answers with me? I'd really appreciate it.</p> <p>Thanks.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10580 17 Robotnik https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/28182 2025-08-05T08:27:26Z 2025-08-05T02:42:33Z

<p>Minecraft. </p> <p>Love it or hate it, it drives a lot of traffic to our site. Sure, recently we've had some bother with modded tech support questions, but overall, most of our questions/answers are fairly high-quality, and this is reflected in the substantial upvotes, bounties, views and comments on a lot of our questions (and answers).</p> <p>Minecraft has been moving steadily onward, and as bugs were fixed or functionality was added/removed, we too updated questions, modified answers, and closed and deleted those which were no longer relevant.</p> <p>Since that time however, Mojang has added the ability to <strong><a href="https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/1475923-changing-game-versions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">select and load old versions of Minecraft from the launcher</a></strong>. Is that enough incentive to undelete well-written, well-maintained questions and answers?</p> <p>For example, we have this question (10k+ only): <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/9330/how-short-can-a-minecart-booster-be-and-still-be-effective">How short can a minecart booster be and still be effective?</a></p> <p>Minecart 'boosters' were due to an errant bug in the physics of how minecarts interacted with one another, which was fixed in Minecraft Beta version 1.6. With the ability to select a version prior to this, such as Beta v1.2, this question and answer is relevant again.</p> <p>Should we vote to undelete this, and questions like it? (If yes, should a disclaimer then be added to the answer that states when the bug was fixed)?</p> <hr> <p>Screenshots of the aforementioned question for those under 10k rep:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/xPnXt.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Question</a></li> <li><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/EbsKi.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Answer Part 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/MbQG3.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Answer Part 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/2zCnH.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Answer Part 3</a></li> </ul>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13342 3 Nik3141 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/229868 2025-08-05T06:12:46Z 2025-08-05T03:39:46Z

<p>I <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/350591/java-minecraft-1-14-how-to-give-a-written-book">asked a question</a> which, after continuing to experiment, I found the answer myself. I posted the answer, but I think that the question and answer really don't contribute to the site and, after reading the deletion FAQ, I decided I'd like to delete it. </p> <p>Unfortunately, when I attempt to delete it I get the following message:</p> <blockquote> <p>You cannot delete this question as others have invested time and effort into answering it. For more information, visit the help center. </p> </blockquote> <p>I'd like to point out that <em>I am the only one who posted at all on the question</em>. As a result, I'd like to know</p> <ol> <li>If there is a different way to delete it?</li> <li>If we could add a feature where if you are the only one who answered your question you can delete it without getting the message, especially if it has a relatively low number of views and has been buried for a while.</li> </ol>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12679 8 Cloudy https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/32055 2025-08-05T01:08:48Z 2025-08-05T12:58:23Z

<p>I understand why <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/320600/32055">this question</a> (about a soon-to-be-released but not-yet-released game) was <em>closed</em> (although I think it was a bit inconsistent, since there are several other questions about the game that are open, upvoted, and/or have answers). I had planned to try to get it re-opened once the game is released (tomorrow), but I just noticed that it has also been deleted.</p> <p>Once the game is released, the question should be on-topic, correct? Are there other issues with it that necessitate its removal?</p> <p>This was the question:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>What splitscreen options are available in Call of Duty World War II? [closed]</strong></p> <p>How many players can play split-screen, and what game modes are (or aren't) available? •How many players can play local co-op? •How many players can play local multiplayer? •How many players can play online multiplayer from a single console?</p> <p>These questions don't appear to be specifically addressed anywhere on the website, and I didn't see any mention in any of the reviews I've read. Even the packaging of the game itself (I haven't seen it, basing this claim off of the standard Xbox One game packaging details) only answers the first of these three questions.</p> </blockquote>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12313 0 user598527 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/148510 2025-08-05T15:47:40Z 2025-08-05T17:41:52Z

<p><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/294301/whats-the-difference-between-difficulty-settings">A question of mine</a> regarding difficulty settings in Deus Ex was deleted due to downvotes. The question wasn't against the rules, and in itself was worthwhile.<br> Is it allowed to resubmit a question that was deleted solely because of downvotes?</p> <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/wtfYK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/wtfYK.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11680 6 gamer103 https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/140607 2025-08-05T00:55:41Z 2025-08-05T14:53:30Z

<p>If I'm on Arqade and one of my questions gets closed because it's off topic or it's marked as a duplicate, am I supposed to delete it or do I just leave it? Or, do I leave a comment or something? </p> <p>I have a question marked as a duplicate (on blender stack exchange) and I am unsure whether I should delete it or not. So what do I do? Am I even able to delete my own questions?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11194 7 T.J.L. https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/125677 2025-08-05T17:35:01Z 2025-08-05T01:14:34Z

<blockquote> <p><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/238256/logitech-g13-changes-lcd-automatically-can-it-change-the-profile-automatically">Question deletion has been reversed</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Yesterday, somebody did a drive-by down voting on a question I asked about how the Logitech G13 interacts with Star Trek Online. The question had been open and unanswered for about four months.</p> <p>Today, the question is completely gone. How does this happen? Why is it allowed?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10256 2 The Man https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/9608 2025-08-05T18:05:23Z 2025-08-05T20:33:52Z

<p>Let's say someone creates a question, and after 2 days, puts a 50 reputation bounty. The question gets upvoted 20 times, and 3 answers get put on it. Answer A gets upvoted 5 times and gets accepted (along with the 50 reputation). Answer B gets upvoted 3 times, and answer C gets downvoted 2 times (but not deleted/removed). Then, for some odd reason, the creator deletes his own question. What happens to the reputation earned by both the asker and the answerers?</p> <p>I already know what happens to badges (thanks to <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5526/do-badges-get-deleted-if-question-is-deleted">this question</a>), but what happens to reputation?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9854 3 Azhdeen https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/68492 2025-08-05T19:06:14Z 2025-08-05T21:13:49Z

<p>I recently deleted a question that wasn't well-received by the community since it was unclear. However, there is no way for me to see it. My understanding is that there <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185491/what-is-the-deleted-recent-questions-page-in-the-user-profile">should be a link</a> to my recently deleted questions, but I see no such link on my profile.</p> <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/dAKw6.jpg" alt="Screenshot of my profile"></p> <p>This issue might be evident for users that do not have any non-deleted questions for the site (see comment below which seems to verify this behavior).</p> <p>As mentioned by <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/811/shog9">Shog9</a> on the meta question linked above, this appears to be a bug. Can someone confirm and help fix the issue? Thanks.</p> <p>Edit: I can confirm that this bug appears if a user has no other visible questions for a SE site. I've since asked a new question on arqade and the link is now clearly visible on my profile.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5302 3 Steve V. https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5398 2025-08-05T18:20:23Z 2025-08-05T08:48:06Z

<p>Yesterday, I flagged an answer <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/35495/5398">(on this question)</a> from an unregistered user as "doesn't answer the question", and started typing up a "Welcome to Arqade" comment. As it happened, Oak was doing the same thing, so both of our comments appeared within seconds of each other.</p> <p>When I refreshed the page, the answer had been deleted. I'm not a 10k user yet, so I can't check to see if it was the unregistered user who deleted his own answer or if one of the ops (admins? moderators?) took care of it.</p> <p>If it was the unregistered user, there's no problem, everything's great. But if it was an op (which I don't know, but it seems likely), then I wonder what the point of both Oak and I leaving comments was. If I can't see the deleted answer or the comments at +5k rep, I'm positive the user can't see it at 1 rep.</p> <p><strong>Why leave "Welcome" comments on answers that we're about to delete?</strong></p>

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/q/7525 3 Robotnik https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/28182 2025-08-05T07:11:01Z 2025-08-05T00:00:28Z

<p>This is the <strong><a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/9409/street-rod-music">only question left</a></strong>, and it's closed as off-topic. Remove it, and <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;music&#39;" rel="tag">music</a> will nevermore darken our doorstep!</p> <p><a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4758/the-great-arqade-clean-up-of-2012">Victory is at hand people</a>!</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7483 3 Robotnik https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/28182 2025-08-05T04:05:49Z 2025-08-05T00:10:54Z

<p>10k+ users can probably still see this: <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/109342/why-were-there-civilians-in-char">https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/109342/why-were-there-civilians-in-char</a> </p> <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/nBdEl.png" alt="Screenshot of the question"></p> <p>I just clicked on a link to this question, read it, went to upvote but it said the question had been deleted. I (stupidly) refreshed the page, and got the "This question has been deleted" page</p> <p>I'm not 100% sure why though, it seemed to be a basic game-storyline question (which AFAIK is on-topic).</p> <p>Would someone be able to tell me what the close reason was, and why this led to the question ultimately getting deleted?</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5107 2 bwDraco https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8658 2025-08-05T14:35:15Z 2025-08-05T18:12:57Z

<p>I seeded <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/77331/why-did-i-get-the-you-did-not-earn-a-trophy-message-and-what-can-i-do">this question</a> (<em>10K only link</em>), involving the "You did not earn a trophy" message on the PS3, which was deleted on the grounds that I never experienced this problem. This was intended as a seed question, so is it okay to ask such questions when I've never experienced the problem in question?</p> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: Here's a screenshot of the question for those who can't see it:</p> <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/AHnuI.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4728 3 SBF https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8335 2025-08-05T11:49:24Z 2025-08-05T11:57:02Z

<p>I just wonder what happened to <a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/19516/who-is-the-guy-in-this-picture">this question</a> which I asked some time ago. I was going to recall the name of the game, but apparently the question was deleted.</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4583 2 albert_vad https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/9477 2025-08-05T18:18:46Z 2025-08-05T18:44:41Z

<p>I had been searching for an old arcade game I used to play for years (the only one I played a lot, I was not a player). I thought gaming.stackexchange could help me, redacted a very detailed question (<a href="https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/22032/help-identifying-a-late-80s-arcade-shooter-game">Help identifying a late 80s arcade shooter game?</a>) and thanks to a number of people that helped I finally found it, granted a bounty. It was a great moment, lots of people commented.</p> <p>Now I wanted to check one thing on the question, and I entered gaming.stackexchange, as I never enter anymore (I'm no gamer) I had a notification I had the Popular question badge, I went to see the question and...it was deleted.</p> <p>I asked in meta.stackoverflow and found out I cannot view it in any way, only a moderator could. So, could some moderator provide me with the question somehow so I can save it locally?</p> <p>A reason why the question was deleted would be appreciated too.</p> <p>thanks</p>

https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4126 -1 Zommuter https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/users/88 2025-08-05T07:14:55Z 2025-08-05T08:21:36Z

<p>With the new reputation log, I noticed the question of the title "Emulators or external tools that support backtracking like in Nestopia" which I replied to is gone. I slightly remember it wasn't the greatest question ever, but it wasn't bad either, so why was it deleted?</p>

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