<p>Here's a simple way to use voting to clean up some crap:</p> <ol> <li>In the search box, enter: votes:0 answers:0</li> <li>Click the "Newest" tab and scroll down until you're looking at questions that are at least a day old</li> <li>Click on one that looks bad (based on the excerpt), read it.</li> <li>If it really is bad, vote it down.</li> </ol> <p>After 30 days, questions with no answers and negative scores are automatically deleted.</p> <p>The "official" meta post with the auto-deletion rules was recently updated: <a href="http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/130540">http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/130540</a></p> <p>And after reading the recently-added section of that meta.SO post, really bad questions could be cleaned up even faster:</p> <ol> <li>In the search box, enter: closed:yes votes:0 answers:0</li> <li>Click the "Newest" tab </li> <li>Click on one that looks bad (based on the excerpt), read it.</li> <li>If it really is bad, vote it down.</li> </ol> <p>After 9 days, closed questions with no upvoted answers are automatically deleted.</p> <h2>Update:</h2> <p>I've been searching for </p> <p>closed:yes answers:0 score:0 migrated:no</p> <p>for a while and downvoting the questions I think are crappy (most of the results). Note that score:0 matches only score=0.</p> <p>The auto-delete runs early Sat morning, so last night I checked:</p> <p>closed:yes answers:0 score:-1 migrated:no</p> <p>And got 1493 results. (Note that score:-1 matches score>=-1, but there aren't too many closed q's with no answer and upvotes.) This morning, there are only 1284 results, so 200 crappy questions have gone away!</p> <p>As far as I can see, duplicates with no answers and -1 or less get deleted the same as other close reasons. (Unless they were merged.)</p>