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Close button in review queue not working when viewing duplicate [duplicate]
In the Close Votes review queue a post can be voted as duplicate. The duplicate which was flagged is available in the queue interface to allow to compare the two posts easily.
When I'm in that queue I ...
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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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Pluralization issue in help center privilege page on closing and reopening questions, on sites which only require a single vote to close questions
(While at the moment this issue only applies to Hardware Recommendations, I'm posting this here rather than on their meta since all help pages are fed from a global template, and there is at least one ...
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Separate "duplicate" close vote and "unclear" vote counts entirely
I've just bumped into something that I feel shouldn't have happened. Execute 32bit ELF on a 64bit ubuntu machine, getting segmentation fault
The question was IMO clear enough. The one request for ...
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Order by which the users close a question
Suppose that some question from some Stack Exchange site gets closed. Then the user who posted the question as well as any user with close/reopen votes privilege can see a message explaining why the ...
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In the close vote review queue, when you switch to look at a duplicate question, the close button is broken
It appears that the recent UI change for the close vote review dialog introduced a bug when it concerns suggested dupes.
Reproducing in Firefox 78.0.1 (Mac OS). In this dialog there are two tabs, &...
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When voting to close and migrate to another site, how can I add another site? [duplicate]
When voting to close (or in such cases migrate) a question:
Community specific
What site does this question belong on?
expatriates.meta.stackexchange.com
Here one site is given, but I would like to ...
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Is there a way to find out if I've ever both voted to close a question and posted an answer to it?
I just noticed that someone voted to close a question and posted an excellent answer at the same time. I wanted to tell them that I thought it was unfair to do both with an argument involving ...
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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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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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Proposal: let authors close their own questions
Currently, an author of a question can delete his own question or "vote" for closing.
Sometimes it happens to me that I ask a question and then I realise I was doing some silly mistake.
When ...
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Remove the suggestion to post a new question from the closed questions post notices
Some user posted a question on IPS twice the past 2 days, and then was rude about the closure of both and the request to edit instead of reposting a slightly recomposed version with the same ...
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How come I don't see a close button on Electrical Engineering SE site? [duplicate]
I am a member of a fair number of sites on the Stack Exchange network.
On most of them, I see a "vote to close" button on posts.
I have 900+ rep on the EE SE, but don't see a close button. ...
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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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Comment lock does not prevent automatic duplicate comments
Question comment locked
Autodupe comment later
Is this intended?
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Can't delete own comment when revisiting Close Vote review page
When reviewing Close Votes, I sometimes leave a comment. I noticed that after reviewing, when going back to the review item, I can edit the comment but not delete it; the 'Delete' link which is ...
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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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So you're saying that multiple close votes from users can total up to one?
I know this is an extremely small grammar problem, and that it is rather pointless to fix it, but when a question has 4 close votes and you hover your mouse over the "close" button for about half a ...
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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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Now that specific off-topic reasons are no longer displayed in the post, how about an auto-comment with the specific off-topic reason?
Fact 1
A custom off-topic reason generates an auto-comment with the reason for the close vote.
Fact 2
Specific off-topic close reasons are no longer displayed in the post itself, unless you are the ...
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Can my duplicate close vote be binding when I cast it on my own question [duplicate]
Today I closed a question I asked on MSO, because it was a duplicate.
I voted to close, and was then served with this nice pop-up:
That asks if it answers my question.
Ofcourse it does, it was me ...
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Make radio buttons disappear in close dialog if I have an active close vote on a question [duplicate]
Note: This feature-request has been posted as an answer to the announcement of the close UI changes.
Earlier when I used to cast a close vote, the dialog would look like this:
That is, the radio ...
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Can I retract a close vote after the question is closed?
I recently came across a problem that I was unable to solve.
By accident I voted to close a question. The vote was intended for a different question. It's not something that happens often, but in ...
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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 we recommend new question close flags? For example: "can't answer because didn't provide code" on Stack Overflow [closed]
I've been contributing a bit lately to Stack Overflow and I have noticed an extremely common trend for new users to post questions explaining their problem, but not providing any code.
Things like:
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Comment notifications for close voters: regression from 2018?
According the the comment reply FAQ, it's possible to @-notify close voters in a very particular set of circumstances:
For questions: The moderator or gold badge holder who closed or reopened the ...
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The close vote dialog should give an option to close without leaving a comment (like the review deletion dialog) [duplicate]
When deleting from the review queue, it's perfectly possible to do so without leaving a form comment:
Add a comment for the author?
Leaving a comment is optional, but can help the author learn ...
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What happens when a question in the Close Votes review queue is self-deleted (and undeleted)?
I had flagged this now-deleted question on Stack Apps because it appeared to be a duplicate of this question by the same author. The author has now removed their own 'duplicate' question, but my flag ...
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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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Close Vote Regeneration [duplicate]
When I vote to close a question, there's a message saying that I have X votes left. I assume those regenerate after some time? What are the rules on that? Is it different for different sites across ...
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Closing 'own' question leaves a nonsensical comment
(Comment link; it was not auto-deleted as suggested in a comment)
Notice the color of the username's background. It is the question asker. When closing own question, the new auto-comment does not ...
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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 don't off-topic close notices indicate which specific users voted for specific off-topic canned reasons anymore?
In the old notices, on questions closed as off-topic, the notice would not only indicate all of the close voters who closed the question, but also the specific users who voted for specific canned ...
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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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Say in the Help Center that casting the first "close as duplicate" vote triggers an automatic comment with the close-voter's name
When a user casts the first "close as duplicate" vote on a question, an automatic comment saying "Does this answer your question? [duplicate-link]" is posted with the name of the close-voting user ...
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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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The case of eternal close votes [duplicate]
According to this meta post from 2015, changes were made so that all close votes age away after 14 days, and your ability to cast a close vote on a question you already voted to close resets 14 days ...
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There's no server side check for Close Vote reviewing your own question
As many of you know, you'll never get one of your own posts in the Close Votes review queue. This is by design - of course you would vote to leave your own question open. However, if you have 10k ...
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See upvote/downvote counts before being able to cast close votes on Beta sites
As per this question, on "Launched" sites, the privilege to see upvote/downvote counts is awarded at 1000 reputation, while casting close/reopen votes is awarded at 3000 reputation.
On Beta sites (...
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Names of close-voters are not visible in the post notice but in the revision history and timeline
I am not a user with close/reopen votes privileges on Travel Stack Exchange, therefore I can't see the names of the close voters in this question:
However, they are visible when going to the revision ...
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Voting to close my own question confusingly acts as if I'm not me
When my vote to close my own question as duplicate was registered as a simple vote, I was a bit surprised, as I thought it'd immediately close for my own given reason, but the question of whether a ...
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New (December 2019) duplicate automatic comment makes literally zero sense when voting to close as a duplicate of an unanswered question
A few days ago, the automatic comment when voting to close a question as a duplicate was changed from:
Possible duplicate of [x]
to:
Does this answer your question? [x]
While some people may ...
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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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