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I was just reviewing the close queue on Electrical Engineering and came across the following question in the close votes queue:

How to convert a PNG file in to a matrix of pixels?

It didn't have an actual close vote which is probably because the person who left the following comment doesn't have enough rep to vote to close:

This should not be in EE SE because it doesn't have much to do with electronics, per se. I think it would be better off in SO

While I agreed it was off-topic (although not necessarily a good question for SO) when performing the review there wasn't any pre-defined reason, I was fairly sure that normally happens for flags to close? It did say off-topic at the top of the window but none of the pre-defined reasons were selected.

I know from other sites you don't get the option to flag with a custom reason so I wondered how it ended up in that state? Also EE.SE no longer has a direct migration path to SO so that option couldn't have been a flag option.

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  • As far as I know, this happens when a flag is used and not a close vote.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 7:47
  • Probably close although from memory "not a real question" was the final close reason, whereas off-topic has further categories below it.
    – PeterJ
    Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 8:06
  • @ShadowWizard are you sure that is still the current design? I thought that the flagged reasons started to appear in the dialog after the Close-Reason refactoring of 2013.
    – psubsee2003
    Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 8:22
  • @psubsee2003 quite sure, yes. The reasons do appear but without any number next to them if it's only a flag.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 8:26

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Either the closevoter retracted his/her vote or (s)he was flagging. In both cases you won't see any option selected, unless someone already reviewed and voted to close.

I know from other sites you don't get the option to flag with a custom reason so I wondered how it ended up in that state?

If the user which action pushed the q in the review queue wasn't a closevoter, couldn't (s)he just add own comment?

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