Give 2k users a 'don't put this in the reopen queue' checkbox

Question

I'm 3k, and have been reviewing reopen votes.

There are some items that show up the queue (some of the this question waseditedafter being closed ones), which have revisions obviously not intended to reopen the question.

See here, here, and here.

A grammar fix there, formatting here, type of fix - not a 2k user trying to get a question reopened.

We have to remember that each one of these 'fixer-upper' edits that hits the Reopen queue wastes 3-6 people's time, and increases the chance that the question may be reopened in error.

So, I propose that to fix this, we give 2k users a ✓ Submit this post for reopening checkbox.

The box would be selected by default, and placed in a relatively conspicuous place for the 2k user making an edit to check.

Answer 1

With the release Review queue workflows final release, we have included functionality that addressed this. Users editing closed questions will now be shown a box that allows them to indicate if they're making a minor edit or a significant edit (should be considered for reopening in the Reopen votes queue).

See the Changes to the Reopen votes queues section of that post for all of the details.

Answer 2

While we now do add questions to the reopen queue in response to 3rd-party edits, we ignore those where the editor has given some indication that he doesn't want the post reopened (voting to delete and flagging are pretty strong indicators here, so that's what we go with). An explicit checkbox clutters the UI with what should be a boring implementation detail, so we're not going to do that.

If you're making a lot of edits on posts that are closed - nominated for deletion - but which you explicitly do not want to see reopened... Then perhaps consider spending a bit less time rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and instead putting that time and effort into other, more constructive activities.

Answer 3

When this happens to me I don't vote to re-open, unless I believe that the question shouldn't have been closed in the first place. It really doesn't take up more than 30 seconds of my time so I don't mind.

As Anna commented, the OP would, I'm sure, like their question reopened if at all possible anyway, unless they've already got their answer. It's unlikely they would click the check-box.

What I've found this feature really useful for is not only helping people reopen their questions when it's deserved but catching people engaging in vandalism of their own posts. You can go to the post and rollback any changes made making this a fairly valuable tool.