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**27,911** posts were deleted on Server Fault during the past 365 days (query run on Feb. 16th, 2016). That breaks down as follows:

    Post Type Deleted by...                                            Posts Deleted % of total 
    --------- -------------------------------------------------------- ------------- ---------- 
    Question  Auto-deletion: AbandonedClosed                           6105          21.87 %    
    Question  Author vote                                              3776          13.53 %    
    Answer    Moderator                                                3220          11.54 %    
    Question  Auto-deletion: AbandonedQuestions                        2955          10.59 %    
    Question  Moderator                                                2035          7.29 %     
    Question  Auto-deletion: DeadQuestions                             1777          6.37 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (Moderator)                      1657          5.94 %     
    Question  Auto-deletion: MigrationStubs                            1374          4.92 %     
    Answer    Author vote                                              1172          4.20 %     
    Answer    Converted to Comment                                     1166          4.18 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (Auto-deletion: AbandonedClosed) 998           3.58 %     
    Answer    Parent question migrated                                 526           1.88 %     
    Answer    Spam/Offensive flags                                     239           0.86 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (Author vote)                    226           0.81 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (3rd-party vote)                 173           0.62 %     
    Question  3rd-party vote                                           116           0.42 %     
    Question  Spam/Offensive flags                                     76            0.27 %     
    Answer    Parent question migration rejected                       65            0.23 %     
    Question  Author was deleted                                       60            0.21 %     
    Answer    Author was deleted                                       59            0.21 %     
    Answer    Review                                                   48            0.17 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (Author was deleted)             31            0.11 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted                                  28            0.10 %     
    Answer    3rd-party vote                                           16            0.06 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (via Vote)                       10            0.04 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (Spam/Offensive flags)           2             0.01 %     
    Answer    Parent question deleted (Auto-deletion: MigrationStubs)  1             0.00 %     

Note that during this same time period, **83,140** posts were *created*. 

This looks only at posts that were deleted during this time period *and remain deleted*. It does not count posts that were deleted and then undeleted, nor does it double-count those that were deleted, undeleted, and then re-deleted. There are arguments to be made for counting all of these things, but they are few in number and mostly just add confusion.

##See also: [Rules for auto-deletion](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/enable-automatic-deletion-of-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006)