Questions tagged [vote-to-reopen]
The process by which users can vote a question re-opened if it is closed due to some users seeing it as off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the /faq.
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Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means that you can't then vote to close the reopened question? [duplicate]
I found a strange bug the other day.
There was a poorly formatted/asked question, on a site1 (that I am not a moderator of), that I voted to close. It was closed eventually with another two votes (...
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Remove "edit and reopen" for low rep users on metas with "beta" privileges
On a child meta, when a user has the privilege to vote to close/reopen but not edit freely, they still have the option to "Edit and reopen", change whatever on the "edit question" ...
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What are the conditions and events that trigger the Community User to reopen questions?
I noticed that the Community User bot has reopened questions on various SE sites, based on the stats from the “2023: a year in moderation” meta posts. However, I don’t know what makes the Community ...
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“Please select a site specific close reason” when casting a “keep closed” vote in the review queue
I got this when I wanted to vote for a question to remain closed:
I picked the last option (intending to pick the generic off-topic reason), since I feel like the question ought to remain closed, ...
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How can one see how many regular users cast at least one reopen vote during the current year?
I am looking at some question reopening statistics. How can one see how many regular users cast at least one reopen vote during the current year? Preferably with the count of how many reopen votes ...
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If a user edits a closed question and checks the "Submit for review" option, does that mean only 2 reopen votes are needed to reopen the question?
Assume an SE site is configured so that 3 reopen votes suffice to reopen a question, and that one needs at least 3k rep to cast a reopen vote.
If a user with less than 3k rep makes an edit and checks ...
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How can one see the number of reopen votes that were cast and that haven't expired yet on a question that is now locked?
Example of a locked question: What do the red dashed lines mean in Google Maps?
How can one see the number of reopen votes that were cast and that haven't expired yet on a question that is now locked?
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Why do I have to click "Reopen" after I checked "This edit resolves the original close reason" during edit?
If I check This edit resolves the original close reason during edit:
Then after saving edited question I must click "Reopen" manually myself.
Shouldn't this be automated? Isn't the fact of ...
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Skip the extra popup confirmation window "Nominate this question for reopening?" to streamline the "Reopen votes" review process
I was going through questions in the review queue Reopen votes: Vote whether or not to reopen closed questions. I clicked on Reopen.
I expected this to reopen the question. Instead, I got a popup ...
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Split decision questions are removed from the reopen queue before a majority is reached
I would like to elevate a variation of a comment from 2012 to a feature request:
I think the formula (for removing a question from review - ed.) should change from 3 to 3 + numReopenVotes. Otherwise, ...
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Leaving a Question Closed for a Non-Existent Reason
Things on the Stack Exchange network change over time, as they should.
One relatively recent change was that made to the workflow in the "Reopen votes" review queue, when a reviewer chooses ...
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How can I check the progress of my question being reviewed in the Reopen queue?
I have a question, asked 22 hours ago, that is closed.
Closed 21 hours ago.
This post was edited and submitted for review 20 hours ago.
20 hours since my edit, I checkeed that the question is still ...
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Warn users when voting to close for a specific reason if the question was previously closed for that reason and reopened
I've noticed each of the following scenarios happening quite a bit:
A question is incorrectly identified as meeting a specific close reason and is closed.
The author or other users comment as to why ...
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Flag to put a closed question in the Reopen queue (just like we have for the Close queue) [duplicate]
A few days ago, I found an interesting question on Music.SE that was closed. I wanted it to be reopened, but I couldn't find any typo or small problem that I can fix with an edit to put it into the ...
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In the re-open votes queue, I cannot close as a community specific reason because "You must select a reason before submitting." [duplicate]
I'm reviewing the close votes. If I re-close as any other reason it works fine, but if I close as a "community specific reason" I can't, no matter what option I select.
I'm on Firefox 108, ...
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Finding closed questions from new contributors that others believe may be now reopenable
This query is fast, showing about 150 results right now:
WITH Closed_New_Contributors (PID, UID, Created)
AS
(
SELECT
p.id AS PID,
u.id AS UID,
u.CreationDate as Created
FROM Posts p
INNER ...
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Bug in voting to reopen a question [duplicate]
I know this is a really tiny bug, but it matters (at least to me).
As a user, I asked a question on Stack Overflow; then that question got closed for being a duplicate. Then, I edited it to show the ...
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Can not select suitable item in the Reopen queue
I stumbled over this in the reopen queue on https://stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/33390644.
My intent was to choose "Leave Closed", but IMO, the close reason should be "Not a question ...
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On some sites the "Leave Closed Reasons" dialog is missing the second page, for reasons
In the announcement "Review queue workflows - Final release", where bug reports after Sept 10, 2021 are to be reported in a new question, it shows the reopen dialog in section 3 (Leave ...
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Add "improve and reopen/leave closed" options to the question edit queue
Whenever a significant edit is made to a closed question, the editor can choose to let it enter the reopen queue (with the "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be ...
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Limit the number of times an author can choose "Submit for review" when editing a closed question
When a question is closed, anyone can make an edit and submit the question for reopening:
This can be done an indefinite amount of times, which can lead to situations where authors are making ...
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Have covert review audits been secretly rolled-out on some sites?
Recently, in the last few weeks I've noticed a shift, reviews turning-up particularly in the reopen queue which show no indication of having been edited to be any more on-topic. (Of course, they've ...
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No feedback after submitting a closed question for review [closed]
My question was closed 3 days ago for being off-topic
Programming Exercises UX
I made the necessary changes in order to comply with the guidelines, following the feedback I was given. I haven't heard ...
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Where can I see how many reopen votes a question has received?
I can see how many reopen votes a question has received shortly after the votes were cast:
However, after some time, they age away, and the reopen button no longer denotes that the reopen votes are, ...
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It should be possible to make edits after casting a reopen vote not count toward the reopen review
When submitting an edit after casting a reopen vote, the checkbox "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be considered for reopening" can't be unchecked:
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Should a comment lock invalidate a reopen review?
Does anyone know why this question's reopen review was invalidated?
Can I say "the US people"?
Timeline (before I cast the third and final reopen vote):
Post is closed
Someone cast a reopen ...
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Approve and leave closed, review again in reopen queue
In the suggested edit review queue I voted to Approve and leave closed, while another reviewer voted Approve and reopen. The other reviewer's action sent the post to the Reopen queue, which is by ...
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"Anyone can answer it now" in question reopen notification is not true if it's a deleted question
For a while now, users have been notified when a question of theirs is reopened:
Hooray, this question was reopened! Anyone can answer it now.
This notification is also issued even if it gets ...
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What determines the "reason" for leaving closed in review that's shown in the close notice?
Today, when reviewing to leave a question closed in the reopen queue, there's an option to select which close reason still applies to the question, or that the original close reason was not resolved. ...
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Grace period for submitting reviews on completed items doesn't work for "Close" reviews in the close queue
Normally, the system provides a 15-minute grace period on completed reviews, to allow users to submit a review if they loaded a task before it was completed but another user submits the final review ...
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No confirmation after submitting edited closed question for reopen review
After I edited a closed question of mine, I checked the checkbox, "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be considered for reopening." After clicking "...
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Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?
In Q3 2021 I finalized my research around three vote close/reopen and I was pretty happy with the outcomes - as were the sites that got to test it out. While the benefit to each site was different, ...
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Reasons shown for "remain closed" votes in the Reopen Votes review queue should be listed in the same order as reasons in Close dialog
Since the Review queue workflows - Final release, when voting to leave a question closed in the Reopen Votes review queue, you have to select an option why it should remain closed:
These correspond ...
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Lower reputation requirement for "reopen" privilege [duplicate]
Some questions are closed by mistake and the current procedure for reopening is very... uhm... bureaucratic.
Take a look at this question for example.
We have 170 upvotes (the question clearly has ...
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Ping commenters to write answers when a question is reopened
My question was closed. While closed, it accumulated comments from people who could potentially answer, not just comment. After reopening, I wrote a very brief comment to each person, inviting them to ...
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Tools page showing "sort by close votes" while on reopen votes
On 10k moderation tools of stack overflow, there is a tab for "most reopen votes".
You could sort by the original close reasons of the post. Or by the number of "reopen votes".
But ...
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Show suggested edit reviewers the original close reason
When reviewing question edits, I saw a post in the Suggested Edits queue where the edit author selected "submit for review". It was closed as one of the five site-specific reasons, but the ...
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Is there a reason for >3k users to "Submit for review"?
Following the latest Review queue workflows - Final release, we now have the option to decide if edits of closed questions should actually send it to the reopen votes queue or not (as was done ...
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Is it intended that the votes from a previous (invalidated) review combine with the votes from a new review to leave a question closed?
TL;DR: I completed a Reopen votes review by myself, as a non-mod, and it seems I was able to do so because my "Leave Closed" vote combined with two others from a previous, invalidated review....
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Show the complete close reason in the Reopen Votes queue
The Reopen Votes queue shows the reason why the question was closed:
However, it only shows the generic reason "This question doesn't meet a Academia [sic] Stack Exchange guideline". If I ...
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Unable to vote to keep a question closed in the Reopen Votes review queue [duplicate]
For the last few hours, I have been unable to vote to keep a question closed in the Reopen Votes review queue. If I do that, I get this error message:
An error occurred when submitting your feedback. ...
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Invalidate Reopen Votes review queue items created after reopening and immediately closing a question
I just reopened this question and immediately (within a few seconds) closed it as a duplicate. However, it seems the reopen 'vote' put it into the Reopen Votes review queue (where I encountered it ...
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Three-vote close/reopen test - results
Three-vote close and reopen has been something I've been thinking about for ... a really long time. I'm really happy to finally be able to present the results of this test to you all. This post is ...
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The reopen process in the help center suggests steps that don't seem easy and/or possible. Documentation issue?
More than five years ago I asked a question about how to check the content of a non-optional value using guard. The first example of four, unfortunately, used an optional array as the input. The other ...
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When choosing to leave closed for the duplicate reason in the reopen review queue, allow specifying another duplicate target
Sometimes, I encounter questions in the reopen queue which are closed as duplicates, but for which I disagree with the current duplicate target(s) and think a different one is better applicable/has a ...
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Adjust the Help Center text about flagging a question for moderator attention to have it reopened [duplicate]
Currently, the Help Center article about reopening closed questions says:
If a moderator (user with a ♦ symbol after their name) closed the question, then you may flag it for moderator attention. ...
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Change the "You have previously voted to reopen this question" shown after retracting your reopen vote to something more informative
It's now possible to retract reopen votes (yay!), but if I try (accidentally or intentionally) to VTR after retracting my vote, it shows this error:
Which tells me nothing about the fact that I've ...
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reopen-questions help center article: "community's meta site"?
In https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions, it is mentioned:
If you're simply unsure about the validity of the closure, the best place to ask is on the community's meta site. Asking in ...
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What actually happens when you edit a closed question? [duplicate]
If you post a question which is closed very quickly, perhaps by a moderator rather than community votes, what actually happens when you edit it or comment on it in attempt to get it re-opened?
Do the ...
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Why does this particular reopen review task incorrectly show with the old wording of the duplicate close reason?
Prior to February 2013, the duplicate close reason notice used to have the following wording:
This question covers exactly the same content as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be ...