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15 questions linked to/from Why are questions 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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Let questions stay open for a minimum amount of time before being closed
Feature Request
*****Make questions unclosable until one hour after they've been asked, with an exception for flagged questions.*****
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What reason can you give for a non-abusive but ...
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Closings and deletions can happen too quickly [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to Stack Overflow and already have experience with getting both a question and an answer deleted.
I understand why my question was closed, but the closing happened too fast. The ...
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To improve first poster experience, can questions have a suspend state before they can be voted for close? [duplicate]
Possible names for this feature:
"Suspended"
"Under review"
I am sure newbies find it quite confronting to ask a question and then have it "closed". A suspend state ...
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Wait for user to update question before voting [duplicate]
I was reviewing questions with close votes in StackOverflow and for some of the questions, the question was voted to be closed because the user had not updated the question with enough details on the ...
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Ideas for the close queue? [closed]
I am concerned on the growing close votes review queue size. I know it has been discussed before.. more than once, and I simply want to propose some ideas...
Why not separate the single close votes ...
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Question is on hold for being boring, I made an effort and gave a good answer
Some guy asked a question about a specific game development. The question isn't phrased too well, and has long and lousy code attached.
I wanted to help the guy, and made a 1 hour effort to re-write ...
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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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Can we please stop closing perfectly good questions that the community enjoys?
I asked this question yesterday. It has 23 upvotes and 9 stars, which shows the community is enjoying it. It is about programming, about a very real problem (even though it is simplified for the sake ...
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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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On closing new users' questions
I've seen several cases of new SO users getting their 1st question closed, and it really irritates me. In all cases, closing the question was totally justified (unclear, too general, etc.). I often ...
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Not requiring a closing comment is good. But what about experienced askers?
It has often been proposed for closing a question to require giving a specific reason (1, 2, 3, 4). As often, the idea was rejected, mainly because it would discourage reviewers from quickly closing ...
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Why are closed questions kept around? [duplicate]
I notice many questions on SE sites are closed. Why are these kept around?
Take exact duplicates, for example. Some of these have value to searchers since it becomes slightly easier to find an answer ...
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Penalize those who answer Debug My Code questions [closed]
This post was inspired after reading The Help Vampire problem.
Some types of questions are just bad for this site. They decrease the signal to noise ratio, they waste my and other people's time. They ...
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Does placing On Hold sooner rather than later improve chances of highly upvoted answers?
On a per-site Meta I have been asked in a comment:
The key assumption here is that putting questions on hold motivates
people to improve them in a way that friendlier measures like comments
and ...
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