I experienced multiple changes on the sites behavior. I am suspecting the changes to the last moderator election, but I don't have evidence if there is also causal link.

The changes:

1. There is _much_ more migration. I thank for you all of this, I never understood why is the migration handled as taboo, especially if it could save a question.
2. Moderators (especially @MichaelHampton and our new @Sven) are like to particip in close/open votes directly.
3. Closed questions will be often nearly instantly deleted. I think, it is _bad_.

These changes (especially (1)) diverge heavily from the common SE site behavior, what I experienced.

I heavily favor (1), on my opinion a question migration is _per_ _definitionem_ the best way to save an offtopic question, because it is the _only_ non-destructive solution. I can't enough thankful to see, that the mods of the site somehow start to break this common, irrational SE "taboo".

I think, (2) contradicts the principle of the community decision. The problem is, that mods don't have the possibility to vote _without_ using their super-powers. There is a thread on meta SE about that (if you want I could dig out the link), I think until that a workable solution exist, the best were if the mods (with permission) temporarily could have a secondary account for community votes.

I am strongly against (3). The possibility to advice the OP, or simply to see, _what_ is happened, will be lost. I think, if a question is bad or offtopic, the primary solution should be to _advice_ the opener, _migrate_ a question to a better place, and only the last result should be a deletion.

So, what is behind these changes?