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Harry Gindi comments on "Deleting closed spam posts" (4678)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:50:12 -0700

I also feel like it's a good idea to leave the post up for at least a few minutes after it's been closed so that anybody who saw the questions get posted and wants to watch it for some reason gets a chance to see the thrilling conclusion.

I approve of this! =)

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Deleting closed spam posts" (4677)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:48:56 -0700

I'm thinking that it makes most sense to delete the last two and leave the first one, since that's the one that has the most content in the revision history and the most relevant comments (the others basically just have comments pointing out that they are duplicates). I also feel like it's a good idea to leave the post up for at least a few minutes after it's been closed so that anybody who saw the questions get posted and wants to watch it for some reason gets a chance to see the thrilling conclusion.

Harry Gindi comments on "Deleting closed spam posts" (4676)

Harry Gindi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:36:37 -0700

For example, we have three copies of the same question, all of which are closed, and two with their contents deleted. Do the moderators intend to delete any of these posts? Is there any reason to keep them around?