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So today while working on bad tags (Looking at you delete!) I found two questions on hold

https://superuser.com/questions/1201542/how-to-password-protect-file-on-delete

which I believe add nothing to the site by being left to exist. They aren't marked as duplicates linking to an answer for other users who may come across them.

The name 'on hold' makes me think this means that the question will at some point have a decision made upon it - does this ever happen? Does anyone ever go and check the questions on hold and make a decision about them?

These questions will never get a good answer, as they are bad questions (hensehence being placed on hold), why are they not just deleted as the user has shown no interest in fixing them?

So today while working on bad tags (Looking at you delete!) I found two questions on hold

https://superuser.com/questions/1201542/how-to-password-protect-file-on-delete

which I believe add nothing to the site by being left to exist. They aren't marked as duplicates linking to an answer for other users who may come across them.

The name 'on hold' makes me think this means that the question will at some point have a decision made upon it - does this ever happen? Does anyone ever go and check the questions on hold and make a decision about them?

These questions will never get a good answer, as they are bad questions (hense being placed on hold), why are they not just deleted as the user has shown no interest in fixing them?

So today while working on bad tags (Looking at you delete!) I found two questions on hold

https://superuser.com/questions/1201542/how-to-password-protect-file-on-delete

which I believe add nothing to the site by being left to exist. They aren't marked as duplicates linking to an answer for other users who may come across them.

The name 'on hold' makes me think this means that the question will at some point have a decision made upon it - does this ever happen? Does anyone ever go and check the questions on hold and make a decision about them?

These questions will never get a good answer, as they are bad questions (hence being placed on hold), why are they not just deleted as the user has shown no interest in fixing them?

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Why are questions which are on hold, never deleted?

So today while working on bad tags (Looking at you delete!) I found two questions on hold

https://superuser.com/questions/1201542/how-to-password-protect-file-on-delete

which I believe add nothing to the site by being left to exist. They aren't marked as duplicates linking to an answer for other users who may come across them.

The name 'on hold' makes me think this means that the question will at some point have a decision made upon it - does this ever happen? Does anyone ever go and check the questions on hold and make a decision about them?

These questions will never get a good answer, as they are bad questions (hense being placed on hold), why are they not just deleted as the user has shown no interest in fixing them?