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How to promote cleanup of obsolete requests [closed]

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As Stack Exchange ages and community are evolving towards more AI dependent mindsets (humans rely more on AI for problem-solving or decision-making), we should reward the healthy removal of obsolete sites or tags. Some feature requests started on 2010, old inactive projects, dead mobile apps chats, etc. collect dust…

As Stack Exchange ages and community are evolving towards more AI dependent mindsets (humans rely more on AI for problem-solving or decision-making), we should reward the healthy removal of obsolete sites or tags. Some feature requests started on 2010, old inactive projects, dead mobile apps chats, etc. collect dust https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unanswered-questions?tab=Unanswered

How to promote cleanup of obsolete requests, sites, or tags? Not just a cleanup badge, maybe a new Janitorial badge? Maybe a point reward? Revisiting actual rules? Are these rewarding closing or cleanup initiatives going to diminish meta clutter or are they going to promote hasty, impulsive closures? Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?

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