Why was the following question automatically deleted as "spam or offensive"?

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For anybody without 10K reputation, here is the original question:

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A 'sticking plaster' word used by Americans to cover over the huge gaps in their vocabulary. It is one the three words which make up most American sentances.

What is that last word?

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In its current state, it shows:

This question was marked as spam or rude or abusive and is therefore not shown - you can see the revision history for details.

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This question was deleted as spam or offensive

While this was far from an ideal question as it was written, I can't see anything about it that would obviously cause it to run afoul of our automated script. There were also no links embedded in the question that would have led to it being thought of as some kind of self-promotion.

I can see huge gaps in their vocabulary in relationship to Americans as being rude, and even possibly offensive enough to some people to have them want it rephrased, but that seems more a matter of opinion than something our script would automatically pick up on through its algorithm.

Assuming the text of the original message that caused it to be deleted doesn't also cause this question to be deleted, does anybody know what would have triggered this?

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Incidentally, the vote count was at -4. Here, also, are the two comments that still exist with it:

This question is unclear. Are you asking about the misspelled word "sentances", which should be "sentences"?

Uh, what does "It is one the three words" mean?

Finally, here is what our help page says about flags and post deletion:

The spam and abusive flags are designed to automatically eliminate truly disruptive posts through the collaboration of the community.

• 3 flags -- post is banished from the front page.
• 6 flags -- post is locked, deleted, and the owner loses 100 reputation.

Answer 1

Posts that have been deleted with that indication next to them were not deleted because of the automated script that deletes certain old questions, sometimes known as the Roomba.

Rather, that indicator says that it was locked and deleted because it had received ‘enough’ flags that it "was marked spam or rude or abusive". This usually takes six such flags from the community at large before this happens on most SE sites, but on our site it only takes three such. A moderator flag would be binding, so the total flag count would not matter in that instance.

To my eyes, this was not unsolicited commercial advertising. However, I would say that it’s pretty rude. Beyond that, it isn’t a real question. It looks like a puzzle with a zinger answer. We don’t do puzzles here, least of all ones whose answer is at the expense of others.

In all honesty it seems to me to be some sort of rant or troll. Even if someone were to somehow clean it up, I cannot at this point see it ever becoming a good fit for our site. I may be wrong about that, but that’s what my instinct tells me. If somehow an argument to the contrary that’s sufficiently convincing to the community can be made, then we could always resurrect it if that were the sense of the community.