### Does anyone go and check questions on hold and make a decision about them?

They are deleted, subject to a specified set of conditions.

There is a automated cleanup process for this. The script is known as the [roomba][1]:

> - The system will automatically delete closed (not as a duplicate),
> unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no positively
> scored or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed 9
> or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past 9 days.
> 
> - The system will automatically delete unlocked, unanswered questions
> that have negative score after 30 days.
> 
> - The system will automatically delete unlocked, unanswered questions
> with score of zero (or one if the owner is deleted), fewer than 1.5
> views per day on average, and fewer than two comments after 365 days.

Source [How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?][2]

Note that individual sites may be their own customised criteria. The specific ones for Super User can be found at [The Community user deleted my question! What gives?][1]


  [1]: https://superuser.com/help/roomba
  [2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that