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Currently, many announcements are closed using reasons such as

• off-topic (custom reason)

• The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review

• off-topic (can no longer be reproduced)

• Warlords of Documentation: Your Quest(ions Answered)

• New Navigation Release Candidate

• New navigation, alpha 2 released

• too localized

• Will Stack Overflow boycott GoDaddy because of their support for SOPA?

• off-topic (pertains only to a specific site)

• 2014 SO Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

• duplicate

• Profile Page Makeover, Part 2: the Prototype

• We'd like your feedback on our new Code of Conduct!

As these questions are often closed as off-topic, they show the canned close message that it can be edited to make it on-topic.

If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.

While I understand most of these questions are closed in order to prevent more responses and this haphazard method does indeed achieve the intended, I feel that this way of closing moderator questions is rather disorganized and unmethodical. They are quite misleading to new users since such announcements are not really off-topic at the time of post.

As Stack Overflow is an established site, I believe a more official and formal method should be implemented for closing moderator announcements.

Thus, I propose the following:

Create a moderator-only announcement-closed tag. Questions with this tag will show a special message underneath.

This is an announcement from the Stack Overflow team. We are not accepting new answers as the issue at hand has been resolved. Thanks for reading!

Furthermore, questions with this tag will automatically be closed but cannot be flagged or deleted. Only moderators can reopen it.

^{I believe this proposal is achievable since it is similar to a previous official Stack Overflow proposal – We're Implementing an "announcement" Tag for Direct Communication From the Team}

Currently, many announcements are closed using reasons such as

• off-topic (custom reason)

• The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review

• off-topic (can no longer be reproduced)

• Warlords of Documentation: Your Quest(ions Answered)

• New Navigation Release Candidate

• New navigation, alpha 2 released

• too localized

• Will Stack Overflow boycott GoDaddy because of their support for SOPA?

• off-topic (pertains only to a specific site)

• 2014 SO Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

• duplicate

• Profile Page Makeover, Part 2: the Prototype

• We'd like your feedback on our new Code of Conduct!

As these questions are often closed as off-topic, they show the canned close message that it can be edited to make it on-topic.

If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.

While I understand most of these questions are closed in order to prevent more responses and this haphazard method does indeed achieve the intended, I feel that this way of closing moderator questions is rather disorganized and unmethodical. They are quite misleading to new users since such announcements are not really off-topic at the time of post.

As Stack Overflow is an established site, I believe a more official and formal method should be implemented for closing moderator announcements.

Thus, I propose the following methods:

1. A more elaborate solution – create a moderator-only announcement-closed tag. Questions with this tag will show a special message underneath.

This is an announcement from the Stack Overflow team. We are not accepting new answers as the issue at hand has been resolved. Thanks for reading!

Furthermore, questions with this tag will automatically be closed but cannot be flagged or deleted. Only moderators can reopen it.

^{I believe this proposal is achievable since it is similar to a previous official Stack Overflow proposal – We're Implementing an "announcement" Tag for Direct Communication From the Team}

2. An easier solution – simply designate an off-topic close reason for moderators to use.

This is an announcement from the Stack Overflow team. We are not accepting new answers as the issue at hand has been resolved. Thanks for reading!