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10 questions linked to/from Should flawed questions be closed immediately?
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How soon should I "vote to close"?
When I see a poorly asked question, should I immediately vote to close, or should I comment, and give the OP a chance to improve their question?
Waiting increases the chance that I'll forget, and ...
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Aren't questions being closed too quickly? [duplicate]
I'm talking about questions like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3642654/asp-vs-c-comparison and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3635054/simple-asp-net-website (full disclosure: I answered ...
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How much chance/warning should newbie first questions be given before closing as 'not a real question'? [duplicate]
This new user's first question got closed as 'not a real question', way too abruptly in my opinion.
As a first question from a new user it was pretty ok, considering what else is out there.
He did ...
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Shouldn't there be some sort of grace period before questions can be closed? [duplicate]
So I had my question closed within eight minutes of asking.
Is this a little fast? Not only do I object to the reason it was closed (not a real question, come on I'm asking for decent books!), but it ...
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What grace period do you allow someone to reformat his question if it is less-than-perfect? [duplicate]
I've seen it over and over again: A poor guy asks a question, makes a mistake in the formulation, another small typo and the result is less-than-perfect (not to say: stupid). What usually happens next ...
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Min time allowed to edit a question before closing it [duplicate]
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Look at the bellow question. It was asked just 2 mins before and was closed immediately. I think the user was not given enough time to edit his/her question. alt text http://img535.imageshack.us/...
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Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
With the new Duplicate close ...
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I propose changing the term "closed" out for... something else [duplicate]
The problem
One of the recurring questions on Meta is "why was this question closed?" In nearly every case, the question is posed by a newcomer to Stack Exchange who doesn't understand what ...
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Give a badge to users who improve closed questions
We should give a badge to editors who improve closed questions so much that they get reopened.
David Fullerton suggested this badge as part of this answer, which explains the motivation. I just ...
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Re-open closed question
This question has been closed for being too vague. As a Jena developer (and committer on the Apache Jena project) I do understand what the OP is asking, although I accept that it's not phrased as ...
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