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I tried to close vote this question. But when I click on the close link the popup comes up, only without the radio buttons (just like it would when I would have already vc'ed) it. Other people can still cv it.

According to ThiefMaster it was reopened by a mod. So I suspect I already cv'ed it before it was reopened by a mod. My questions are:

  • Are my assumptions correct?
  • Is it a "bug" that I cannot vote for it after it has been reopened (while others still can)?
  • Shouldn't this behavior be changed?
  • If not: why not?
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    I closed it again. Someone re-asks that same question every couple of days.
    – user102937
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:24
  • @RobertHarvey Glad you feel my pain my friend :)
    – PeeHaa
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:25
  • @RobertHarvey It's kind of hard to criticize when the asker posted in 2009
    – Michael Mrozek
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:30
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    @MichaelMrozek: OK. But the duplicate is the canonical one everybody links to.
    – user102937
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:30
  • @MichaelMrozek It's not only about OP and I suspect you would know that. It's about other people getting to that question (including the "limited" answers). That was the reason it was closed, but for some (perhaps valid) reason (that I don't understand) it was reopened this january.
    – PeeHaa
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:33
  • Post Reopened by Kev♦ back in January.
    – jmort253
    Jun 23, 2012 at 23:17
  • @Shog9 That title sounds as though the poster already knew the problem that the answers are pointing out...
    – John
    Jun 24, 2012 at 2:29
  • @John: he should have - but regardless, the title was useless as it stood.
    – Shog9
    Jun 24, 2012 at 2:57
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    Ok, my bad. In my defence, it seemed illogical to be closing an old question as a dupe of one posted two years later. Also I wasn't aware that the 2011 post had become the canonical for Headers already sent by PHP type questions.
    – Kev
    Jun 24, 2012 at 3:27

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Post Closed as "exact duplicate" by NikiC, ircmaxell, PeeHaa, edorian, Levi Morrison

You can only vote to close once on a question, no matter how many times it has been closed and re-opened.

(Also, you can only vote to re-open once, regardless of whether you've VTC'd).

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I believe it is by design that you can only ever vote to close a question once, and you have, in fact, already voted to close it.

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From the /privileges page on close and reopen votes:

Questions can go through multiple close and reopen cycles, but each individual user may only vote once in each direction in the cycle.

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    Wow. Didn't know it also turns up in revision. Learn something new everyday :-)
    – PeeHaa
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:12
  • Seems like the real question now is: why has it been reopened :P
    – PeeHaa
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:14
  • May be user thinks it is a good question and must be reopened so it is
    – The iOSDev
    Jun 24, 2012 at 6:32
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In the revision history, you can see that you effectively voted to close before the question got reopened:

Post Closed as "exact duplicate" by NikiC, ircmaxell, PeeHaa, edorian, Levi Morrison

You can only vote to close once to prevent close/reopen wars. It only takes 5 votes to close or reopen a question, so five users voting over and over again will effectively override whatever the community consensus might be.

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    In this case it was 1 mod effectively overriding the community for some reason.
    – PeeHaa
    Jun 23, 2012 at 22:23
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    @PeeHaa the question got a flag on it at the time complaining about it being closed as a dupe of a newer question.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Jun 24, 2012 at 2:38
  • Closing/re-opening wars is probably the first reason not to allow multiple VTC for a question.
    – apaderno
    Jun 24, 2012 at 10:24
  • @AnnaLear Thanks for elaborating.
    – PeeHaa
    Jun 24, 2012 at 14:06

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