We have a new process that automatically removes very old, unloved unanswered questions network wide. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year The actual criteria is - less than (question age in days * 1.5) views - 0 score or lower - no answers - 1 comment or less - asked more than 1 year ago So, wait for these questions to get 365 days old and they should "die off" naturally. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/our-first-area-51-site-goes-public/ This site was in beta on June 30th 2010 -- so by June 30th 2011 we should start seeing auto-deletion of these sorts of questions.