According to the documentation a node is deleted when it's reputation is -5 or lower. I've noticed that there are several nodes that qualify for such deletion listed at Worst Nodes, so I'm guessing that this deletion isn't automatic. Is there some other rule that is used to determine if a post should be killed, or has Vroom been to busy to take care of that minor cleanup? Also, if a post is deleted, what happens to the replys? Do they get deleted too? Do the authors suffer the -5 XP penalty?

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RE: Killing Posts
by royalanjr (Chaplain) on Jun 05, 2000 at 17:27 UTC

    The rules stated for deletion of a post are left vague, and I think they need to be that way. There is no telling what someone might post and leaving some leeway for the powers that be to moderate this is not a bad thing. I have not seen any evidence of this being abused. I would suppose that if in the event that a post did get deleted that all of the replies would be deleted as well; but certainly the authors of the replies should not be penalized as the author of the original post would be. Unless of course the reply deserved such based on its own merits.
    Roy Alan
    "I quit; I concede. Tanj on your silly game!" -- Louis Wu
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RE: Killing Posts
by Adam (Vicar) on Jun 04, 2000 at 21:55 UTC
    Ok, I went back and re-read the docs and I see that it does not say -5 reputation results in deletion, it says, "If a given node receives a lot of negative votes it will be noticed by me and possibly deleted." Which strikes me as some what vague. I'm thinking we might need a more concrete rule then that.
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      I'm not really sure if we actually need any rule for removing posts. A post gets removed when the Powers That Be decide that the post is not worthy of being on Perlmonks. I have this faint hope that the menace of losing 5 XP keeps posts from being so bad that they need removal - not even princepawns and maleteen2000s posts are really worth the bother of removing them, as they keep somewhat on topic (with maybe the exception of that Review spam).

      I think a node should only be removed, if there is a public outcry above and beyond ---voting, that is, if people not only complain anonymously but openly about that node. If a person collects many quite negatively rated nodes, this might be enough for both the person and the administrators to reconsider the membership of that person though.

      I think no node should silently disappear and it should never be an automatic process but a process of discussion, because maybe these automatic rules might sometimes need discussion themselves.

      Of course, this places even more of a burden on the administrators, but negative voting already helps them keeping unpopular nodes from the front page.

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