I had the privilege of reading this meta post just now (screenshot in case it's deleted again).
It was created 36 minutes ago.
It was closed 20 minutes ago.
It was deleted 1 minute ago.
Meta is the place where the community gathers to talk through problems. It doesn't matter if those problems have been talked about ad infinitum, if someone brings a topic up, we should honor that.
The post wasn't poorly written.
It wasn't hostile. It spoke of a problem without castigating the people.
It garnered two good answers that have one advantage over the other times we've talked about this: They were fresh.
Communities can and do change; and if we shut down conversation moments after it happens, all we're saying is that we're hostile to ideas being revisited -- and if that's the case, aren't we as a community then guilty of the culture people have ascribed to us?
As a feature request (or as a point of community input): There should be a mechanism in place, whether it's good sense or whether it's an automated system to keep people from deleting duplicates within an hour of them being posted if they have upvoted answers on meta.
In this case, the stated duplicate is from 2014. I think we'll all agree the tenor of the community has changed a lot in 7 years, so why wouldn't we allow another discussion to take place on this topic? It doesn't harm anything to have the discussion, and yet it causes harm to delete it within 36 minutes of it being posted.
This is the place where we discuss policy changes; and if we can't discuss changes to policies because it was talked about in 2014, how do we ever expect to improve?
