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The difference is one is generic, the other we've already fallen out over in rants under another post, which devolved into this need to be right rather than actually dealing with the issue.
All I see is anger rather than logic. I removed a contentious issue… which you are now exposing for how contentious it actually was. This is not your first rodeo. I'm done now.
They're deleted because unanswered they're just noise clogging up Google. As I already said, the site isn't here solely for your benefit. The rules & automations are there to keep it better for everybody. You abandoned your question, it got swept up. That's how the game is played. Like it or not. The ruleset is in my answer below. As with all rules here, they're decided finally by the users, by vote; the same way your questions got voted.
The question had been abandoned. No action had been taken on it in a month. A further improvement edit would have brought it back to the top of the page where people would see it & may have attracted even one upvote, which would have saved it from deletion for another year.
If you consistently post badly-received questions it's not the members but the system itself will ban you from posting. The previous question, for those who can see deleted posts, was superuser.com/questions/1788526/…
The point you seem to be missing is that the site isn't actually operating solely for your benefit, but for many. Each time a new user does something they shouldn't, everyone else [with admittedly differing degrees of patience] has to explain how it should actually work, what you need to read to help guide you & assist in formatting etc so posts conform to a known spec. Ignoring this & going your own way never ends well, because the existing members & fly-by voters will just then hammer it into submission, or delete it.
Dominique - I'm far too jaded by the abysmal quality of reviews at the moment that 'respectful' went right out of the window long before I posted that question. There is a desperate need for reviewers to learn. If you hadn't asked this question about audits, you wouldn't have learned either & still be failing them.
@JourneymanGeekOnStrike - I was just joking about the previous downvoter. The abysmal reviewers, however, are easy to track from the review history [which seems to have become my second home this past couple of weeks :\
I just noticed my 'educate reviewers' got a downvote. Maybe one of the reviewers I'm talking about is certain it doesn't apply to them ;) @JourneymanGeekOnStrike I know you're on strike right now, but we do have one reviewer who really needs a review ban. they're not learning anything at all.
@Ramhound - sure, but it just seems the wrong way round. Let them be rubbish at it for a while, then ban them for being rubbish at it, so then they have to ask why they were banned. Hence my original point - how do we educate first, rather than ban afterwards?
