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What is the policy of determining a post subject to automatic removal?

Is it

  • the post has no answer, and
  • the post either has pure downvote(s) , or is closed?

How can I find a list of my posts that are candidates of automatic removal? For example, by a url with query strings, by search words in the search box, by SE data exploration site?

Thanks.

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The rules for when a post will be automatically removed are explained in this FAQ post on the main meta:

How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?

The most relevant portion is:

By the system:

  1. The system will automatically delete any post flagged six times as offensive or spam (3 times on English Language & Usage and The Workplace).

  2. The system will automatically delete closed, unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively scored or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed for any reason other than duplicate nine or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past nine days. (RemoveAbandonedClosed)

  3. The system will automatically delete rejected migrations (questions created as a result of a question from another site being migrated there, and later closed for any reason other than duplicate) that are at least 30 days old. (RemoveRejectedMigrations)

  4. The system will automatically delete negatively-scored, unlocked, and unanswered questions that are older than 30 days. (RemoveDeadQuestions)

  5. The system will automatically delete unlocked, unanswered questions older than 365 days on main (non-meta) sites with score of zero (or one, if the owner's account is deleted), fewer than 1.5 views per day on average, and fewer than two comments. (RemoveAbandonedQuestions)

  6. The system will automatically delete any post with a negative score when its owner's account is deleted, unless the post is a question that has at least one positively-scored answer. (This doesn't apply on meta sites.)

  7. The system will automatically delete any post, regardless of score or answers to questions, when its owner's account is destroyed (only done for spammers and blatant trolls).

  8. The system will automatically delete migration stubs (original site copies of questions migrated to other sites, which haven't been rejected by the destination site) that are at least 30 days old. Questions deleted under this criterion still have their revision histories visible to everyone, and links to them redirect to the new question instead of showing an error page. (RemoveMigrationStubs)

  9. Posts with zero or negative score that receive six recommend deletion reviews (four on Stack Overflow) in the low-quality-posts review queue are automatically deleted "from review". Posts can be kicked into this queue either automatically or with very low quality and not an answer flags, and can be removed from the queue if enough Looks OK reviews are cast against them.

    See: The Community user deleted my question! What gives? at Help Center

As for finding them, I suggest you search https://data.stackexchange.com for queries about "roomba". For example, this one looks promising: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/455567/open-question-roomba

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