<p>I agree that unless some vote fraud happened, it makes no sense  to remove the votes. One of the main issues I have with that   current rule is that losing votes on one question may result in the question being <a href="https://softwarerecs.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2459/903">silently deleted by the automated question deletion bot a.k.a. roomba</a>. And when a user is removed, one cannot see on which posts the votes we lost had been  cast.</p>
