Roomba Forecaster ( install )
Roomba Forecaster shows the question's status with respect to being deleted by Roomba.
This script adds a "roomba" status line under "viewed"/"active", in the top-right of question pages, which shows:
- If Roomba will delete the question
- How long until the question is deleted
- Why the question won't be deleted (by default, displayed in a tooltip)
- If you down-voting on the question or answer(s) will qualify the question for Roomba
You can click on the "roomba" status line to open an options dialog to change display settings.
The reasons the question does not qualify for the three different Roomba tasks is included in a table. The table is, by default, displayed in a tooltip when the mouse hovers over the "roomba" status line:

Alternately, the table can be always visible by selecting the appropriate display option (see below).
In addition, the default is to display if you down-voting on the question and/or answer(s) will qualify the question to be Roomba'ed.
| Question | Answer(s) |
|---|---|
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If the question will be deleted by Roomba, then the number of days until it is deleted is displayed, along with if it is a daily, or weekly Roomba task.
| One Roomba task runs daily | Two Roomba tasks run weekly1 |
|---|---|
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Clicking on the "roomba" status line will open an options dialog where you can select what is displayed. The following GIF shows how the display looks with the various different options:
Clicking on the Close button will keep the selected options for use on this page only. Save will store the options for use on all pages. Cancel abandons any changes you have made to the options.
The optional short descriptions in the "roomba" status line are cryptic:

The best way to learn what they mean is to match them up against what
is displayed in the larger table (either as a tooltip, or
always displayed).

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})();Roomba Forecaster has been tested on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Edge. It should be compatible with other browsers.
The tooltip is styled to look like a native tooltip in the browsers which were tested: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Edge. Thus, the tooltip will look slightly different in in each browser. The images above are from Chrome.
1. Actually, four Roomba tasks run weekly. The other two only
affect questions migrated to another Stack Exchange site or from another site and rejected. While the script should detect these, the Stack Exchange system automatically forwards the page to the site where the question currently exists. Thus, unless you're a moderator on the origin site or you use the ?noredirect=1 parameter, it is unlikely that you will see one.
This is a fork of RoombaForecast.






