user12909: I have begun to notice old posts (more than 1.5 years old) showing up in the close queue. Many sites, when they first begin, have more lax standards, and that is okay. However, as the community evolves and grows, should we judging older posts based our new standards today?
For instance, here is a screenshot of one post that I just reviewed:

I have encountered others as well, but that one's a good example.

The following meta links are taking from math.SE. I am bringing in these links to show what can happen when a community grows and there are many different people and personalities on the site. A subset of users can achieve deletion of closed questions with high quality answers.

Downvoting can lead to autodeletion by a SE script
Intentionally downvoting answers to force deletion by the auto-delete script
Can question with accepted answers be delete (answer is yes)
Votes to delete scale with upvotes on question and answer
This one is from meta How does deleting work

Point nine of number 5 says: 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. 
In summary, users can ban together to cause deletion of closed questions with accepted answers. They do this be downvoting the questions and answers and yes this does happen. It may not happen now when the community is equivalent to a town where everyone knows their neighbors but it tends to happen later. I believe that the site will grow and will eventually face this problem. If we close a bunch of questions now, we will just be setting them up as targets for users that believe they must go.

Automatic deletion rules

As a note, the user who started the downvote to delete campaign on math has been a member for less than a year and started this when they were a member for only two months at that time. Since that time, numerous questions and answers were deleted which has caused an uproar and still continues to this day. Some of prolific members have left for that reason, content destruction.

user3624: I think you have a point, but there is a big difference between questions that were deemed useful when they were posted, and those that are just lying around unanswered. In the first category, you will find questions with many comments and useful answers, even if the original questions could be considered unclear/broad/etc (i.e. closeable) by current standards. I don't think these questions should be closed, since they were obviously considered ok back then, and the poster might have edited the Q after comments. However, I think it is more unproblematic to close unclear/"bad" questions that lack answers, especially since the OP might be gone and will not respond to comments to clarify.
I'm not sure in which of these two categories the questions that have been showing up in the close queue belong. 
On the other hand, closed questions with useful answers will usually not be deleted even if they are closed, since that would require that several users considers the question + answers to be of low quality. In that sense, closing older questions is relatively unproblematic since they can still provide useful information to the site. However, personally, I find it a bit "unfair" to close old questions that were useful when posted, and that still provide good information.
When looking recently closed questions that you seem to have disagreed with (some quite recent, some old), most seem to fall into the second category:  

Coiling of chromatids during cell division
Do humans have chemosensors for nutrients or chemicals?
Has anyone ever sucessfully translated xRNA or yRNA?

I see these as rather unproblematic, and in one case the account of the original poster has been deleted. The possible exception might be the last question, where I think it would have been reasonable to comment before voting to close.

user5144: I think it is ok to go through old postings (we have done this quite extensively a while ago, you probably missed that) and close those, where the person who asked them never reacted to clarifications and which are likely to be unanswerable. Or those who are too broad. 
The community is getting bigger and improving in terms of the standards for questions and answers and I don't see it's wrong to at least partly apply this to old posts as well. You have probably noticed that not all old posts get axed.

12909: <p>I have begun to notice old posts (more than 1.5 years old) showing up in the close queue. Many sites, when they first begin, have more lax standards, and that is okay. However, as the community evolves and grows, should we judging older posts based our new standards today?</p>

<p>For instance, here is a screenshot of one post that I just reviewed:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/00Ry5.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>I have encountered others as well, but that one's a good example.</p>

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<p>The following meta links are taking from math.SE. I am bringing in these links to show what can happen when a community grows and there are many different people and personalities on the site. A subset of users can achieve deletion of closed questions with high quality answers.</p>

<ol>
<li><a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16270/does-one-need-to-consider-the-details-of-the-autodeletion-script-when-downvoting">Downvoting can lead to autodeletion by a SE script</a></li>
<li><a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15126/is-it-appropriate-to-downvote-answers-for-the-sake-of-deleting-a-question">Intentionally downvoting answers to force deletion by the auto-delete script</a></li>
<li><a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20022/can-questions-with-accepted-answers-be-deleted">Can question with accepted answers be delete (answer is yes)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19118/how-many-votes-are-needed-to-delete-a-question">Votes to delete scale with upvotes on question and answer</a></li>
<li>This one is from meta <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that">How does deleting work</a></li>
</ol>

<p>Point nine of number 5 says: 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. </p>

<p>In summary, users can ban together to cause deletion of closed questions with accepted answers. They do this be downvoting the questions and answers and yes this does happen. It may not happen now when the community is equivalent to a town where everyone knows their neighbors but it tends to happen later. I believe that the site will grow and will eventually face this problem. If we close a bunch of questions now, we will just be setting them up as targets for users that believe they must go.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/enable-automatic-deletion-of-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006">Automatic deletion rules</a></li>
</ul>

<p>As a note, the user who started the downvote to delete campaign on math has been a member for less than a year and started this when they were a member for only two months at that time. Since that time, numerous questions and answers were deleted which has caused an uproar and still continues to this day. Some of prolific members have left for that reason, content destruction.</p>
 3624: <p>I think you have a point, but there is a big difference between questions that were deemed useful when they were posted, and those that are just lying around unanswered. In the first category, you will find questions with many comments and useful answers, even if the original questions could be considered unclear/broad/etc (i.e. closeable) by current standards. I don't think these questions should be closed, since they were obviously considered ok back then, and the poster might have edited the Q after comments. However, I think it is more unproblematic to close unclear/"bad" questions that lack answers, especially since the OP might be gone and will not respond to comments to clarify.</p>

<p>I'm not sure in which of these two categories the questions that have been showing up in the close queue belong. </p>

<p>On the other hand, closed questions with useful answers will usually not be deleted even if they are closed, since that would require that several users considers the question + answers to be of low quality. In that sense, closing older questions is relatively unproblematic since they can still provide useful information to the site. However, personally, I find it a bit "unfair" to close old questions that were useful when posted, and that still provide good information.</p>

<p>When looking recently closed questions that you seem to have disagreed with (some quite recent, some old), most seem to fall into the second category:  </p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/9016/coiling-of-chromatids-during-cell-division">Coiling of chromatids during cell division</a></li>
<li><a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5328/do-humans-have-chemosensors-for-nutrients-or-chemicals">Do humans have chemosensors for nutrients or chemicals?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5199/has-anyone-ever-sucessfully-translated-xrna-or-yrna">Has anyone ever sucessfully translated xRNA or yRNA?</a></li>
</ul>

<p>I see these as rather unproblematic, and in one case the account of the original poster has been deleted. The possible exception might be the last question, where I think it would have been reasonable to comment before voting to close.</p>
 5144: <p>I think it is ok to go through old postings (we have done this quite extensively a while ago, you probably missed that) and close those, where the person who asked them never reacted to clarifications and which are likely to be unanswerable. Or those who are too broad. </p>

<p>The community is getting bigger and improving in terms of the standards for questions and answers and I don't see it's wrong to at least partly apply this to old posts as well. You have probably noticed that not all old posts get axed.</p>
