From this post: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/enable-automatic-deletion-of-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year > **If the question is more than `365` days old, and ...** > > - has a score of 0 *or* a score of 1 with a deleted owner > - has no answers > - is not locked > - has a viewcount ≤ the age of the question in days times 1.5 > - has ≤1 comments **TL;DR** "Tumbleweed" Questions get automatically deleted as of May 2011