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| Feb 29, 2020 at 7:17 | comment | added | amon | @V2Blast It is great that the RPG community was able to reopen so much! My experiences lie largely with the Software Engineering community, which has always struggled with communicating it's scope (often misunderstood as the place for soft questions that don't belong on SO) and has a tiny group of curators. Last year >50% of questions were closed, and only 2.3% reopened. Similarly, SO had a 3% reopen rate. Those rates should/could be higher (~20%?) but a lot is impossible to salvage. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 3:35 | comment | added | V2Blast | I think the "A year in moderation" posts that Shog9 made on site metas included stats on reopen rates... It looks like in 2019, 33% of all closed questions were reopened. And I don't think they were all bad questions - often, they could have been fixed, but the question author never bothered addressing the issues. (A few were simply a not good fit for the site.) | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 22:48 | comment | added | Clonkex | I totally agree that most closed questions are not even worth bothering with, but I've personally had too many experiences where I ask a similar but definitely not duplicate question and it gets closed instantly (often because they literally just didn't read the question where I state why it's not a dupe) and then I struggle to figure out what to do next (since the question is already correct, and I stated how it wasn't a dupe, so now I just have to make some random edit and pray it will stay on the front page long enough for it to get reopened). As such I'm hesitant to make that even worse. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 10:24 | comment | added | amon | @Clonkex On smaller sites closed questions can linger on the front page for over a day. A front page with around 50% closed or downvoted questions is not a good look. We had hoped that a front page that showcases good, on-topic questions would invite more good on-topic questions, thus reducing need for downvotes/close votes in the long run. Dopelgreener is legitimately concerned about the reopening process, but in my experience half of closed questions are unrecoverable (e.g. wildly off topic) and its ultra rare for the asker to engage with existing improvement suggestions. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 4:06 | comment | added | Clonkex | Interesting. Why would you want to get closed questions hidden from the front page? As in, it sounds like the exact opposite of what @doppelgreener wants. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 19:07 | history | answered | amon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |