Timeline for Add close reason as a comment after Vote to Close
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 9:05 | comment | added | Madara's Ghost | @DaImTo Once upon a time, the concept of [on-hold] did not exist. We used to close a question, and it was closed. Because 'close' sounded so final (a question could still be reopened), it was renamed to [on-hold] for the first 5 days. Also, other forms of assistance was created (for example, how many of you noticed that all of the close reasons instruct the OP exactly what needs to be done to get his question to be reopened?). There's plenty of guidance, the question is how willing and receptive OP is without the personal spoonfeeding and care from other users. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 9:02 | comment | added | DaImTo | If you are advocating (Which IMO is good to have) my job as the OP is to try and prove my point. correct? please continue :) | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 9:01 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | I know, just advocating here too :) . I think closing is a 'bad experience' which we might be able to prevent with a little guidance, even when the question gets committed. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 9:01 | comment | added | DaImTo | I don't have access to admin stats. But I have seen very few reopen requests. I cant remember a single one that I have voted to reopen. If you think of the new user are they even aware of the fact that they could reopen the question? Normally once I understand what they are talking about I improve it for them. I understand your point, but think it would be better to avoid close all together. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 8:59 | comment | added | Madara's Ghost | Because then you have a situation where a good (now it's good) question has 3 close votes, and blind pile-on voters might close it (even though it's good now). (Again, I want to stress out I'm playing devil's advocate here, I'm generally in favor of this FR :P) | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 8:57 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | Generally it does, but why not prevent it? | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 8:56 | comment | added | Madara's Ghost | @PatrickHofman The only reason it's conceived "hard" to reopen a question is because very very very few users ever bother improving it. In truth, even most trivial edits to closed questions often result in reopening, and a real constructive edit generally gets a question reopened very quickly. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 8:55 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | Why the need to close it first? Maybe OP can prevent getting it closed. On some tags / sites it can be hard to get a question reopened. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 8:52 | history | answered | Madara's Ghost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |