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Why was my question closed for lack of context? [migrated]
I asked a probability question on the math site
Formula for Probability of rolling higher
The question was closed, saying I needed more context. I clarified a bit more, thinking that would be enough, ...
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Why was the network-wide close-as-duplicate comment change not announced here?
Since yesterday the automatic comment posted when closing or flagging a post as a duplicate was changed from
Does this answer your question? [question title]
to
This question is similar to: [...
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Should moderators override the community's "reopen" votes? [duplicate]
Currently, moderators can unilaterally close questions that the community voted to reopen, voting repeatedly even, which I've seen happen.
If moderators are elected by the community, should they ...
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Can I voluntarily cast a single close vote despite having a gold badge? [duplicate]
Voting to close as duplicate can be done by gold-badge owners without requiring votes from other people ("dupehammer"). This is often sensible and useful. However, is it possible to ...
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Let's not vote-to-close staff announcements that we disagree with (please?)
I've noticed that users with the close privilege sometimes try to close unpopular announcements; though they mostly end up being left open in review, occasionally end up being closed. (But soon ...
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If I vote to close a question, am I notified if the OP updates the question? [duplicate]
Suppose that I have the privilege to vote to close a question on some Stack Exchange site.
Suppose further that I encounter a mediocrely-written question and vote to close it. If the OP updates the ...
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Improving the copy in the close modal and post notices – 2023 edition
Since we updated the close modal text and post notices a few years ago, I've known that there are concerns about whether they're sufficiently clear for users and whether they're giving the correct ...
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What is the purpose of the "needs details or clarity" closure reason? [duplicate]
What is the purpose of closing a question because it needs details or clarity?
Example scenarios
Scenario 1A
The question does not have enough details to be answerable, and it is closed. It receives ...
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Disable "First Questions" Queue for those who have spent all their Close Votes
When a reviewer has used up their daily close vote quota (50 on SO), the "Close Votes" review queue is no longer available to them and does not show up in the "Review queues" ...
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Let's close [jobs] questions!
Stack Overflow discontinued Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story on March 31, 2022.
Since most of the posts with jobs tag are not relevant today because of the discontinuation, let's close the ...
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Moderators can close question without voting. Do they have too much power to restrict the discussion? [duplicate]
I saw that there are a lot of similar questions. But I noticed that only recently moderators started closing questions bypassing the usual voting, one moderator is enough to close it, like this one.
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A duplicated question with bad writing and bad tagging but better answers [duplicate]
The first question was asked, with all possible tags, but received no long answers.
A few months later, the second question was asked without address the first one. The second was poorly worded with ...
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Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?
In Q3 2021 I finalized my research around three vote close/reopen and I was pretty happy with the outcomes - as were the sites that got to test it out. While the benefit to each site was different, ...
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Can the review-needed indicator be based on votes about to age away, rather than total tasks?
As a moderator, I generally ignore the close votes queue for the reasons outlined here, on the (apparently false) assumption that if a review queue requires attention, then it will turn red. However, ...
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We should earn Steward without using the queue or we should be able to look more than 3 tags on filter
If we see a question that has a number on the close link, this indicates a problem with the question. If we properly read the question and agree on this close reason then we can immediately click ...
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How to encourage 'real' responses from review, rather than rubber-stamp comments
We've now all seen the message
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're ...
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Should feature announcements be closed after the initial feedback period is over?
This is basically the reverse of Should bug-report/feature-request *questions* that duplicate Grab-bag *answers* be closed as duplicates?
From time to time, staff members post announcements questions ...
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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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A user answering duplicate questions and dupe-hammering them afterwards [duplicate]
For a long time now a six-figure user has been consistently answering questions from a certain tag and dupe-hammering quite a few of them right afterwards. I didn't think much of it until recently:
I ...
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User consent is required before closing the question [duplicate]
I came across an article and tried to answer the question, but unfortunately, it was closed, so that I couldn't answer it.
It isn't easy to decide whether the question should be closed or not, so it ...
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Should a question be closed without a discussion? [closed]
I recently posted a couple of questions in two stack communities (this one on physics and this one on skeptics) that have been closed, both deemed off topic.
In one case (skeptics) it has been ...
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How can we prevent or discourage people from closing questions about which they know little or nothing? [duplicate]
There is not a week that goes by that I do not see a question that was closed for "This question needs details or clarity" and yet the question is perfectly clear to me. My hypothesis is ...
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Should questions with bounties have same `user shared attempt` requirements (regarding downvoting and closure)? [duplicate]
I saw this post but didn't think it addressed this question.
I'm relatively new to being an answer producer at Stack Overflow. I've learned that answering possible duplicates (instead of voting for ...
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Can't rescind my close vote after closure
I just voted to close an SO question because of some community-specific reason. However, on a closer read, it seems the question has an answer which is different than what the OP specifically asked ...
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Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites
Test is live!
The 13 sites below have their votes to close set at 3. I've also reduced the votes needed for migrations to 2 (down from 3).
Almost two years ago I ran a test for single vote closure/...
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Tweak reopen votes requirement
I was reading a post made a year ago concerning reopen votes being automated.
The proposed solution looks unwieldy at best. But it did make me wonder if a simpler solution could be utilised for ...
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Require close voters to continually interact with questions they voted to close [closed]
People who vote to close a question should be responsible for being active with the question poster. Meaning that if you vote to close the ownus is on you, the voter, to see the changes that you have ...
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Accepted answer to "Migrate to any site?" is self-contradictory
The accepted answer to this question:
Migrate to *any* site?
says:
the best thing to do in this scenario is to flag the question for Moderator attention and mark it as "other". Then add a ...
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Why are the community-specific close reasons not automatically included in the don't ask help article?
Any person can read a general pan-SE list of close reasons. Any person can read a site-specific list of on-topic areas – these are available in the help center. In a few SE sites, there is a list of &...
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Why does SO allow people to continue answering a question when one is accepted and highly voted up? [duplicate]
Simple question, title says it all.
For example I have a few posts where the answers that are accepted are highly voted up by the community, which indicates they are, based on my questions, vastly ...
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Rules for closing the question as duplicate [closed]
I have bad experience today on my question that is closed.
I see it was decided by single person? Will that be previously by group of people vote then close right?
Why there is no time interval to ...
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Is it really a good idea to delete questions or close them before they're answered? [duplicate]
I know people sometimes write unclear questions. I think some of them can never figure out how to make their question clearer. I think for some of them, the only way they're ever going to learn is if ...
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How can I sort users by how many of my questions they close voted?
I posted questions. Some got closed. I'd like to see which users close voted them most often.
E.g., display: user X close voted to close 23 of my questions, user Y close voted to close 17 of my ...
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Why should I flag a question as a duplicate, instead of answering it? [duplicate]
Background:
I have recently begun answering more questions on Stack Overflow. I have already learned new things about programming languages I use on a daily basis and have had an overall excellent ...
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Why are bountied questions immune to close votes?
What is the reasoning for making bountied questions immune to close votes?
I've recently encountered a couple of questions which were a bit mediocre to start with and successive edits over a few days ...
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Tighten vote-to-close conditions for high-score questions [duplicate]
I've seen some questions with score 5+ on the verge of getting closed and sometimes I thought "Mmmh that's a shame".
I know I can vote to re-open but perhaps we don't have to go through that. Surely ...
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Close voters can be seen by those without the privilege to do so [duplicate]
This is what I see from my account (which has the close vote privilege):
It says "Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege," yet this is not true.
Here is ...
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What is the recommended way to handle questions that are duplicates of questions in a different SE site? [duplicate]
If you have an SO question A that is a duplicate of question B on SO, it should be closed as such. However, what if question B lives not on SO but on, say, vi.SE?
As far as I know there is no option ...
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How can I close my own bad question after putting a bounty on it?
I asked a question about a problem that can not be reproduced. I was assuming a database state that was not correct (a query on a table that does not exist).
It's fine if the points are gone, but I ...
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New hiding close-voted posts feature suggestion
In the 2020 community roadmap, it refers to a new feature for hiding posts that have a close vote:
We are making fundamental changes to how our close question system works so that it’s a friendlier ...
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New close/reopen privilege explanation for users who earn it for the first time
Earlier this afternoon we released a new feature aimed at educating folks about the "Cast close and reopen votes" privilege when they earn it.
Going forward, when a user visits a question after ...
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The newer close reasons don't account for questions that are too general and require lengthy answers
There are some questions that are incredibly broad. These used to be closed under the "too broad" reason, but that went away. These questions now fall right between two of the new categories:
Needs ...
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Why are "approving a pending duplicate vote" and "casting a close-as-duplicate vote" different actions when done by the asker?
When a question is flagged/close-voted as duplicate by other users, the question asker has the possibility to unilaterally approve this vote and have the question closed. If this happens, the last ...
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Why was the Community/Moderator hammer used on this question? [closed]
So there's this question How to stop Visual Studio (2019) from adding line on the end of file?, which clearly had some problems, but with patience and effort I was able to work through it in the ...
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Are there special guidelines for moderating exceptionally old questions?
This question pertains to a very old and fairly insignificant question of my own from nearly a decade ago.
Is Stack Overflow an appropriate place for DotNetNuke questions?
The question was recently ...
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Description of the "Flag as duplicate" doesn't match official staff reply
I know I'm not the only person noticing inconsistencies in the description since it started
Should we change the description of "Duplicate of"?
Duplicate explanation should encourage ...
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What is the process for having a site's close threshold lowered?
Stack Overflow now has a 3 close vote threshold
We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.
Shog9 then made this comment
Other sites can have whatever ...
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May a diamond moderator utilize a second, non-diamond account e.g. to cast regular close votes?
This question is prompted by: Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding close/open vote and Do moderators not have a way to just push a post into the close queue?. Basically, some ...
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Should we close old Winter Bash questions?
I see a few questions in the Close Votes review queue here on Meta Stack Exchange for specific questions about the challenges and rewards of Winter Bashes gone by. Some people are voting to close them ...
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Possibility to object to closing? [duplicate]
After a question get closed, it can be reopened after it was substantially enhanced.
But it may be substantially enhanced while it has one or more close votes, but not closed yet.
I think it should ...
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