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Address Sonic's issue regarding the actual old modal title.
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Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

As Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog pointed out in an edit to this answer, the prior title for "unclear" was actually "unclear what you're asking". I, personally, don't like that wording, because using "you're" in the close-vote/flag modal is a bit confusing to close voters/flaggers (and it's unnecessarily longer), but it would be substantially better than "Needs details or clarity". If something longer than just "unclear" is really desired, then, perhaps, "unclear or needs details". Personally, I feel that "unclear or needs details" is redundant, but it would be notably better than the current modal title.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

As Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog pointed out in an edit to this answer, the prior title for "unclear" was actually "unclear what you're asking". I, personally, don't like that wording, because using "you're" in the close-vote/flag modal is a bit confusing to close voters/flaggers (and it's unnecessarily longer), but it would be substantially better than "Needs details or clarity". If something longer than just "unclear" is really desired, then, perhaps, "unclear or needs details". Personally, I feel that "unclear or needs details" is redundant, but it would be notably better than the current modal title.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

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Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear what you're asking""Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear what you're asking""Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear what you're asking""Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear what you're asking"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear what you're asking".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear what you're asking" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

The reason wasn't only called "Unclear"; it was called "Unclear what you're asking".
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Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear""Unclear what you're asking"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear""Unclear what you're asking".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear""Unclear what you're asking" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear what you're asking"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear what you're asking".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them. Even in the modal, these modal titles are not the full concept of the close reason. They should be usable as an identifier into which people place the full concepts of close reason and into which people separate the concepts in the close reason from concepts in other reasons.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear what you're asking" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure. A substantial portion of the confusion is because those two current modal titles are longer and begin with the same word, which short-circuits a lot of what we rely upon to quickly separate concepts.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

More fleshing out.
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