Add close reason as a comment after Vote to Close [duplicate]

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I know that that duplicate questions automatically post the duplicate to the comments on the question.

Would it be possible / a good idea to have this for all vote closes? Possibly having a check box at the bottom of the vote close window to post reason as a comment to the question might work as well.

My reasoning for this is I tend to vote close questions for lack of effort.

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Now in some cases the question could be improved, but a lot of times questions like this are by new users who don't always return. If I feel it can be improved I like to let these new users know that it was vote closed and why. I copy that to the comment. example: Google Analytics for Android: Still can't Enable Demographics and Interests

Is this something we could consider adding?

Answer 1

I got your point and I think I can go with you a long way.

I had like to propose a small update. Instead of adding a comment, why not show the message in a box for the asker only. Adding a comment makes it public, I am not sure I like everyone knows I voted to close (eventually, when found 'correct', I don't mind).

This is already implemented for duplicates: it shows a box telling the question is possibly a duplicate of another one. Let's show something similar for other close reasons (in the same possible wording).

Answer 2

I voted up, because I generally support the notion, but let me play devil's advocate here.

This feature request is unnecessary because the onhold-improve-reopen cycle is the intended path a bad question should go through. We have tools that allow us to inspect how improved an on-hold question is when it is edited, and vote to reopen it if necessary.

1. User posts bad question
2. Question gets put on hold by 5 drive by users
3. User reads the close reason () and understands he needs to improve his question by providing more info.
4. User edits more information into his question
5. Question is automatically put on the reopen queue
6. Questions gets reopened rapidly.

This whole cycle can take minutes, and not a single comment had to be done.

Now, the problem with your suggestion is that people tend to pile on close votes. So even if OP improves his question, there's a good chance of it still being closed, especially if 2-3 people already managed to vote to close before he did.

Also, like you said, on the (vast) majority of cases, OP will never return to the site to improve his question unless an answer is posted, so the amount of effort worth putting into it is low, accordingly.

All in all, I'm in favor of this because it can only do good (either OP rages out faster, in which case we can stop caring sooner, or OP edits and improves his question faster, which is better for everyone).