Linked Questions
18 questions linked to/from Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites
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Drop the required vote to close to 3 [duplicate]
Most if not all questions that requires closing are need to be closed for obvious reasons.
If I say most is because some duplicates are questionable and up to discussion about if they are a duplicate ...
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Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote
I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding close and open vote like they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where ...
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What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?
For context on how this process came to be, please see our initial commitment to responding to Meta and Mods, our guidelines for the testing period, and the results of the initial test and next steps.
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How Do I Opt Out of Privileges?
According to multiple mods, gold badge holders can now unilaterally close questions as duplicates. I hold seven gold badges for tags on SO, which means I can, on my own, close questions as duplicates ...
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What is a "closed" or "duplicate" question?
Questions can be closed or marked as duplicates.
What does it mean for a question to be "closed"?
What does it mean for a question to be marked as a "duplicate"?
Who can close a ...
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Restrict the delete/undelete vote privilege to once per post
I am aware of the reasons delete has not been restricted before, but the reasoning has begun to unravel on Stack Overflow, where a fairly large pool of users now have access to that privilege. I give ...
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Community team Q4/2021 Roadmap
This is just an FYI: I've just published the Q4 2021 Community team roadmap on the blog (and it's early, even!). I'm taking questions or comments here, or over there. :-)
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Would raising the review limit help with the Close Votes queue? [closed]
We all know the problem with the close votes queue, but it seems the problem is people not reviewing enough. Whenever I had time, I would go through all 40 that I was given, but by then I wanted to do ...
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2020: a year in closing
I am thrilled to share that this year we are continuing a tradition started by Shog9 five years ago. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange ...
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What is the status of three-vote closure testing on non-SO sites?
In the Community Roadmap for Q4 of 2020, one of the goals for November 2020 is
Three-vote Close and Reopen Tests
Three-vote closure has been requested by many many sites, including the one I ...
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Is there a limit to how many questions can be added to the duplicate list?
A question can be a duplicate of more than one question. Moderators and users with gold tag badges can add questions to the list of questions that a given question is a duplicate of. I was recently ...
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Is there a reason for >3k users to "Submit for review"?
Following the latest Review queue workflows - Final release, we now have the option to decide if edits of closed questions should actually send it to the reopen votes queue or not (as was done ...
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Three-vote close/reopen test - results
Three-vote close and reopen has been something I've been thinking about for ... a really long time. I'm really happy to finally be able to present the results of this test to you all. This post is ...
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Lower reputation requirement for "reopen" privilege [duplicate]
Some questions are closed by mistake and the current procedure for reopening is very... uhm... bureaucratic.
Take a look at this question for example.
We have 170 upvotes (the question clearly has ...
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Notify new users of close votes, explain what that means, and recommend next steps
tl;dr:
New users aren't notified of close votes, and probably wouldn't know how to check for them
When a question is closed:
New users don't know what this means (it's valuable feedback!)
Limited ...
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