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Vote this up if, as a matter of policy, when a post like this gets voted down far enough (though for some reason it still shows as 0), it's okay to remove it and tell the poster to resubmit as an Open Thread comment. I would like posts like this to automatically disappear when voted down far enough, but that would take a code change and those are hard to get.
Vote this up if you disagree with the above policy.
I am reluctant to agree with the aforementioned policy because I do not want to lose the comments on such posts. There have been cases where a '<= 0' post has been flawed but the replies have provided worthwhile insight into the topic being covered. I often search for things I can remember reading months in the past and it would frustrate me if they were not there to be found.
I like the sound of the (unfortunately code requiring) idea of having them not visible in the side bar.
The mechanism I have for post removal wouldn't prevent the comments from being visible if you knew the old link.
Would search still work? (I assume it probably would...)
I don't know. I too assume it probably would.
If there's a link to it from somewhere, Google ought to index it and keep it indexed. A quick google returned a discussion suggesting that orphan pages with no incoming links will eventually be de-indexed (assuming the bot had the time to index them before they got orphaned), though it might take a long time. It's from 2004, though, and Google has revamped their systems plenty of times afterwards.
Why isn't this essentially included in the Preferences? There is a box stating, "Don't show me articles with a score less than X." Is that box not working? Or am I misunderstanding what it does? Or...?