If a question gets votes to close but no answer or comment stating the reason for the vote, the OP has no way of knowing if editing would solve the problem.
Show to the asker the reasons (but not who voted) given for a vote to close so they can attempt to correct the problem without having to resort to begging for a reopen or reposting an edited version and risk being called a duplicate.
The OP of a question shouldn't have to cast a vote to close his question just to see how many close votes it got and why. There ought to be another way for the OP to get that info.
There's one specific close reason where i think this would be very, very useful:
Right now, i see an awful lot of duplicates left un-closed, prompting duplicate answers / bifurcated answer sets... and i wonder if it isn't that they're just not visible enough to those who could be closing them.
This is already implemeted, if you click on close you see what other people voted
Usually if nobody comments on how to fix it, it's FUBAR.
But, I think showing the vote totals would be beneficial to the OP. Or it may make them feel unloved when they see the amount of stuff that has at least one close vote. Either way, it's a win, and I'm for this.
If you click on the close link, it shows you how many votes each current option has.
However, I'm not sure that you can tell what's going on if you don't have enough rep to vote to close yourself...
If there are only one or two close votes and no comments, don't worry about. We are a community of people with different views. It takes 5 votes to close a question, so one or two is not cause for concern. Some of the community express opinions about past events by down voting new questions. They know the question is unlikely to be closed, they just like to throw stones.
If you see 3 or more close votes and no comments, check the sites meta and see if there are any recent (today or the last month) conversations about your question or topic.
There are a couple of existing answers addressing, how to see what the close votes are for. As for the other part;
the OP has no way of knowing if editing would solve the problem.
Every site has a help page How do I ask a good question? If that is not sufficient to help the OP get on track, they can post a comment asking for why it is getting close and/or down votes, on most sites I visit regularly someone will normally offer advice like "I did not vote, but..."
Occasionally a question is posted by a new user on Beta sites, where the community is still working towards consensus. Questions may be closed and re-opened without the OP making any changes, in these cases there is normally comments under the question and/or a meta post about the question or topic.
