Can you help me understand why this closed question is going to be deleted?

Question

This Q (not mine) which was closed as too broad a long time back, has now attracted 6 delete votes:

How to make a weird guy stop touching me?

According to the help centre,

When should I delete questions?

Closed questions that are of no lasting value whatsoever should be flagged and deleted.

Before voting to delete, please check whether there are any good answers; if so, then the question should be flagged for moderator attention as a potential merge candidate. We don't like to lose great answers!

The question and many of its answers are highly upvoted. Also, it was asked at a time when IPS.SE was only in its second month and our criteria for judging the content and scope of posts were still evolving. I am not asking why it was closed as too broad: but can you help me understand why it needs to be deleted?

Specifically I would like to understand how an on-topic question (even if closed as too broad) and its highly acclaimed answers taken together are "of no lasting value whatsoever" and need to be hidden from most of the people reading or using this website.

Note:

1. I am aware the Q is now old enough that nobody will lose hard-earned reputation by its deletion, I think.

2. Anticipating a possible answer, may I suggest that "the question was not improved after being closed" appears an unconvincing reason for deletion in view of the highly upvoted Q and A, and doesn't automatically seem to meet the criteria for deletion set out in the help centre.

3. Also, at least 250 questions remain closed on IPS going back to late June 2017. Are we going to delete them all? Or is there something especially delete-worthy about this particular question?

Although I have already accepted @Tinkeringbell's prompt and convincing answer, members are most welcome to contribute your valuable inputs in answers and comments.

Answer 1

Closed questions that are of no lasting value whatsoever should be flagged and deleted.

There's no value in leaving this question around.

In fact, it's dangerous to leave such a highly upvoted post lying around, since people might think they can gain some quick rep asking a similar question.

As to why this should be deleted: Highly upvoted questions are still visible on the 'votes' tab. People keep upvoting the bad stuff, and the answers on the bad stuff. This distorts the distribution of reputation across the site. If anything, the highly upvoted stuff should go, and we can use the downvoted stuff as good examples of bad questions.

Votes don't make value.

Valuable posts follow the community guidelines. If the guidelines change, questions and their answers can become worthless, see for example the deletion of 'identify-this-movie' requests on movies.se.

As said before here: A good answer does not make a good question. If someone can ask a better question on the same subject, we can answer that and upvote the answers to the useful post, instead of leaving crap lying around.

Before voting to delete, please check whether there are any good answers; if so, then the question should be flagged for moderator attention as a potential merge candidate.

This part of your question is not applicable here. It is only applicable to questions that can be merged, that are exact duplicates. There's no need to look at the quality of the answers here before deciding that the question is worthless and can be deleted.

Basically, every question that

• Isn't a duplicate
• Doesn't warrant a historical lock

Is eventually up for deletion.

We need to start deleting stuff sometime, and it might be better to start with the highly upvoted stuff since it's easier to see something is bad when it's downvoted a lot.