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 `30` days old, and ...** > > - has −1 or lower score > - has no answers > - is not locked > > **...or...** > > - it was closed and migrated to a different site > > ... it will be automatically deleted. **TL;DR** "Tumbleweed" Questions get automatically deleted as of May 2011