What is meta? ×  Programmers has picked up a bit of a reputation
as of late. We've done our best to shed the remaining issues
from the NPR1 days. And we're fortunate to have users who focus
on maintaining the site's high quality content, and who move
quickly to get rid of the cruft. Heck, we even invited Undo to
unleash his stale comment sleuthing program against the site.
And in the spirit of full disclosure, some of us use our delete
votes as a little bit of therapy - blasting away the electrons
that just don't need to be there.  But lately, we've noticed a
bit of a problem. Not a huge problem like collider questions
attracting poor quality answers. Or even an issue like our close
review queue not getting enough reviews2.  No, we have a problem
with the background tone to indicate a question has been
deleted.  Take a look at Exhibit A enter image description here
The background shade of pink (purple? red?) is ... merely
functional. It's certainly clear that something has been
deleted. But it just doesn't f