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28 questions linked to/from How do close votes age away?
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Do reopen votes have an expiry time? [duplicate]
Once I asked a question but unfortunately it got closed. So I edited my post and voted for it it to be reopened. 2 days later I got 4 votes, but never got the last one. Yesterday I spotted that the ...
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow [closed]
Today, the size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions and growing. Is that a problem?
Which action could be taken to clean it up? It seems to be growing faster than Stack Overflow members ...
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Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike! [closed]
I know this question is going to make me unpopular here – but I feel I have no other options.
I have been concerned by the size of the close votes review queue for quite a while.
When I ...
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Proposed contest for close review queue posse [closed]
Many hands make light work.
I propose that we offer a coveted Stack Exchange coffee mug to the top 25 people who work to clear the close queue in the next 45 days, and a USB rocket launcher to the ...
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Daily close votes queue limit [closed]
This question is related to this (jan23), this (mar 12) and many others; with the difference that close queue on SO today is 20k longer = 74k.
I read & understand about the fear for robot-...
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Age close votes after 14 days, regardless of views, allowing recasting
I've been putting this off for a long time...
Close vote aging - the deactivation of votes that haven't resulted in a question being closed - is a critical part of the vote-to-close system, but has ...
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Should dupehammer wielders use their powers to wipe obviously incorrect close-as-duplicate votes?
Occasionally, a user will cast a close-as-duplicate vote that's clearly incorrect. If that vote closes the question as duplicate, a gold tag badge user in a tag for the question ("dupehammer user") ...
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Can something be done to prevent delete votes when a question has reopen votes or is being discussed on meta?
I saw this question where the OP was asking why his question got closed as "not constructive". I edited the question into something more "constructive" and it had a few reopen votes, but while I was ...
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What happens when a moderator clicks 'leave open' in the close-vote queue? [duplicate]
It takes 3 ordinary users clicking "leave open" in the close-vote queue to remove the question from the queue.
How about diamond mods?
Do they remove it from the queue in one click, or not?
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When does the Community ♦ moderator vote to close a question?
Occasionally, there are questions for which one of the close voters is the Community ♦ user. When does this happen, and why? What is the difference between this and a deleted user?
For instance, one ...
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Disputed flags and triage [closed]
Is the disputed flag handled any differently in the new triage review queue. I marked this question as very low quality, after choosing unsalvageable and this was disputed. From what I have read, if a ...
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What do I do when I can't vote to close a question but want a mod to look at it?
I found a related question What is the guidance for using "Standard Flags?" about using standard flags and custom moderator intervention flag. Using custom flag directly takes them to ...
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Questions sometimes have a "possible duplicate of" comment but no close vote?
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I've seen it several times over the past few days. Occasionally there will be one of these comments under a question:
possible duplicate of ...
But there ...
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Why are questions that are too old to migrate being migrated?
Coming upon this question I felt that it was off-topic for StackOverflow, so I immediately clicked on close.
I was promptly informed that this question was too old to migrate so, presumably, I would ...
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Do close votes on old questions really ever age away? [duplicate]
So now and then I stumble upon an older question which is essentially a duplicate of a yet older and/or more popular/canonical question. Today's example is What's the difference between ...
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