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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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Blue close vote count wraps to two lines [duplicate]
I've got this issue on ruSO, but it probably happens on all SE sites. When closing a question as a duplicate, the number of votes already given for the same question wraps to two lines. As far as I ...
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Does linking a similar question when asking a question make it less likely to get marked as a duplicate?
Let's say I want to ask a question, and I see a similar question and some answers to it but I don't feel that any of the answer tells me what I want to know. Would linking the similar question, in my ...
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Is considering a user's track record before voting to close considered acceptable?
On History Stack Exchange, we have a policy of heightened scrutiny on questions that involve certain controversial topics due to the frequency with which these topics are used by trolls. One ...
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Please allow close voting when viewing a suggested duplicate in the Close votes Review Queue
I would love to see an improved workflow for when I review a duplicate question.
My current workflow looks like this:
Read the question that is nominated for closure
Read the suggested duplicate ...
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Automatically detect and dynamically build the list for offtopic migration options [duplicate]
Questions on Stack Overflow has only 5 options when closing as off-topic when the question "belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network":
Close ->
A community-specific reason -&...
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Closing a question that's being used as a known good audit should immediately remove it from the audit pool
We've identified a problem on SO with "known good" audits:
Question is asked and quickly upvoted
Question is selected as a "known good" audit candidate
Question is closed (often ...
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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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Please tweak the behavior of the dupe "does this answer your question?" message so it does not suck
I have no problem with my question being closed as a dupe; hey, I got an answer! Yet, the way the "Does this answer your question" message works is not great at all. Let me explain.
I post ...
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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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Can we get inline question tools for the First Questions queue? [duplicate]
Currently, the review "First Questions" only has the Follow and Flag options, plus Edit in the context menu for the queue. However, a typical question UI outside of this review also has the ...
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Can we please warn people if they start answering a question that has close votes?
Answers being posted before closing invalidates the closing mechanism
Quite often, I see the issue of a stackizen posting their answer while question closure is being discussed in comments or has ...
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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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"No longer reproducible" close reason uses much smaller font sizes compared to the other close reasons
This seems to have popped up today. The "No longer reproducible" close reason now has its own header and the explanation text is much smaller:
(Might need to zoom in a touch or test it ...
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Change the "You have previously voted to reopen this question" shown after retracting your reopen vote to something more informative
It's now possible to retract reopen votes (yay!), but if I try (accidentally or intentionally) to VTR after retracting my vote, it shows this error:
Which tells me nothing about the fact that I've ...
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Is there any actual harm in voting to close spam, as long as you flag?
There's no question that spam should be flagged as spam. That's what the flag is for. But sometimes people also vote to close with various custom close reasons. Is there any harm in that provided they ...
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Are there times that questions are more or less likely to get closed as off-topic before they can get answers?
I was wondering whether the time that a question is posted has an effect on whether the question is likely to get closed as off-topic. I noticed that some questions that look like they fit the ...
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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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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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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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Daily reviews doesn't match votes available. Why is that?
What's the difference between "your daily reviews" and the "votes left today" in the review queues?
Here's a visual from SO's close vote queue where you can cast 40 close votes (...
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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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What is the benefit (rep?) to someone who votes to close a question? [duplicate]
What is the benefit (rep?) if any to someone who votes to close a question? Is that benefit still there at all if the vote is wrong?
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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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Unformatted string in new close-vote review queue format [duplicate]
In the new review queue page, in the "This question has been flagged as" section, there is a header that shows up as "subreason.InputTitle"
I believe this is unintentional since ...
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Closures and deletions shouldn't automatically apply to edited questions
When users with relevant privileges decide to close or delete a question, they base their opinion on certain wording. When that wording is changed, it essentially becomes a different question, and the ...
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Reconsider allowing moderators to cast normal close/reopen votes as well as binding close/reopen votes
On Stack Exchanges, all users with 3,000 reputation or more can cast votes to close questions that they see as off-topic, or to reopen questions that they feel were wrongly closed. Ordinary users get ...
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This is a duplicate! Your challenge is to close it as such!
The duplicate selection in the Close dialog is broken. When you pick a duplicate an error appears:
An error occurred while searching; please try again
and the vote to close button stays disabled.
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reneMod
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Why do negative scores of example questions on Area 51 get reset to 0 whenever someone votes to close them?
I just cast the final close vote to close some example questions on an Area 51 proposal. Those questions had very low scores, around -3 and -5.
However, as soon as the questions got closed, their vote ...
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The wording of "this question is now deleted" is misleading and should be changed
If you try to close a question that is already deleted, you get the following popup message:
This question is now deleted
This sounds like it means one of two things:
The action you just took has ...
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Why can deleted questions be reopened but not closed?
You can vote to reopen a deleted question, as shown in the below screenshots:
However, you cannot vote to close deleted questions; if you try you just get a popup that says "this question is now ...
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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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Can we have the error shown when close-voting a deleted question use the Stacks Notices component?
When you attempt to up/downvote a deleted post, it shows an error that uses the Stacks Notices component:
But if you vote to close a deleted question, it shows an older message:
Which... is kind of ...
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Question had enough close votes to be closed, but was not closed
This question on Stack Overflow required 4 votes to close, despite the requirement on Stack Overflow being only 3 votes to close a question. A similar bug was fixed and marked status-completed in ...
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Allow OP to ping closevoters in comments
Before a question is closed, the OP didn't know which users cast closevotes, unless they have left a comment. However, sometimes the OP would like to discuss about the closevote(s) with the ...
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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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Odd duplicates link for questions that were closed as duplicates a long time ago [duplicate]
I occasionally notice this odd duplicate notice, but only for questions that were closed a long time ago. Apparently there was an update that changed the interface, changed how closing questions as ...
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Can we know who voted to close a question and then retracted their vote?
Some time ago, I was browsing through the history of the close votes review queue of a group and I noticed that a certain question had been closed after five users having voted there to close it (and ...
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Close vote retraction confirmation prompt incorrectly says re-voting is never allowed
There is an existing feature-request, Allow another close vote after retraction, that is marked as completed. Per that request, it is now possible to vote to close a question again after retracting a ...
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Don't dismiss custom flags when a question is closed by a moderator
Back in 2013, the system was changed so that when a question was closed, any custom moderator flags on it would not be automatically dismissed. However, this seems to only work when a question is ...
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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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Should the question be closed if it has been answered in another thread of some website?
The question which has been answered in some other website should be marked closed in Stack Overflow? It can help to find active questions and reduce time to investigate duplicate questions with other ...
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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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Site-wide "close" stats incorrect
On this page it claims I've only closed 11 questions. That number is way off - I've probably actually closed 10x that.
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Retracted Close Votes shouldn't be listed under 'Profile > Votes' indistinguishable from retained ones
The title pretty much says it all. When one votes to close a question, retracts their close-vote, and then goes to the Votes tab on their profile, the question is still listed there as "Closure&...
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