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What moderator tools exist to control retaliatory close votes? [closed]
Several individuals with time on their hands can practically paralyze work of the whole meta.
Users should not allege close voters are mindless or malicious or otherwise not acting in good faith
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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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Display vote closure summary in the close dialog [duplicate]
We recently got the asterisk feature in the Close link of questions, highlighting if we already did a closure vote, which is great.
Yet, the closure dialog could also be improved in my opinion.
Right ...
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My comment wasn't posted when voting to close as "Other" as the final vote. Is this a bug?
This might be a duplicate of No comment posted when question is closed as off-topic because ... > other
Reference question: Ballistic Coefficients in a Zero G and Perfect Vacuum
I was the final ...
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Highlight "close (x)" when a close vote is already raised [duplicate]
I always stumble upon questions which are in need of being closed. However, I often forget whether I voted to close a question or not, so I click on "close (x)", wait for the close dialog to load and ...
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Make it clearer when looking at a question if I've already voted to close it
Since "Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?" we now have the possibility to retract close votes.
However, as mentioned in "Retracting Close Vote, included in the Vote To ...
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New bronze badge for using a filter on the Close Votes review queue
Many bronze badges are awarded for just for using features of the site. This is a simple and efficient way to advertise features.
One feature that took me (and probably also others) a while to find ...
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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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Is there a delayed effect from reopening a question on subsequent close votes coming soon after?
This happened recently:
A question was closed as a duplicate. I wasn't involved in this closing.
It was reopened by two users with close-vote privileges but no special privileges, and one with 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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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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Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
With the new Duplicate close ...
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When a retraction is not a retraction. Please update close-menu message
Sometimes, when close-voting, the question gets closed and subsequently reopened in very short order. If attempting to recast a close-vote, this dialogue appears:
It tells me that I can't vote to ...
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Questions with active bounties still aren't eligible to appear in the close vote queue, and pending reviews are still invalidated upon bounty starting
Today, the system was changed to allow users to vote to close or reopen questions with active bounties. However, it looks like a detail was missed when making this change.
For a long time, questions ...
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Penalties for continuously closing questions for a bad reason?
It is extremely common in my experience to see a question that is closed for a reason that is clearly incorrect. It takes an eternity for the question to be unclosed through the appeal process.
In the ...
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Allow users to vote to close bountied questions
There was an an earlier meta-discussion about allowing moderators to skip the "bounty refund" step when closing a question that was declined, but I wanted to spin off waffles's comments into a ...
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Possible to vote to close questions with active bounties
Over on RPG, I was able to close vote this question after it had a bounty posted:
As you can see, it currently has two close votes. And I did some testing right here on meta (shout out to Journeyman ...
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Need to be able to close as 'Belongs on Web Applications' [closed]
The close reasons need to be updated to include the new website.
Going forward, how will this be handled when we have hundreds of sites? I don't want to deal with a drop down that has more than a ...
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Get Community involved in the close process
It's been noted that the Stack Overflow close vote queue has a few questions in it. More generally, it appears as though the Stack Overflow community cannot keep up with the volume of questions that ...
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How to easily access your "saved for later"/duplicates list when voting duplicates
It would be very useful, when voting on a question as duplicate, if one could easily access the "Saved for later" list (or whatever list one uses), since that's where I keep the commonly ...
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Is the explanation of “view close votes” misleading?
https://askubuntu.com/privileges/view-close-votes states:
How do I view close votes and reasons?
Click on the close or reopen link
under the question body.
And it seems that it requires 250 ...
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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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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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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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Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means that you can't then vote to close the reopened question? [duplicate]
I found a strange bug the other day.
There was a poorly formatted/asked question, on a site1 (that I am not a moderator of), that I voted to close. It was closed eventually with another two votes (...
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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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Close votes on "review first questions" [duplicate]
When I get questions like this one in the "first questions" review queue, what am I supposed to do?
The question had already been answered by the author in the post's comments and it was a ...
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Why do people vote to close a programming question on Stack Overflow as off-topic? [duplicate]
I clearly have a programming question, yet people vote to close my question as off-topic. Why?
Is Stack Overflow not a programming Q&A site?
Someone voted to close my question.
The SO help clearly ...
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Mandatory comment for voting to close as unclear
This question has an increasing number of close votes. However:
It has a positive score.
Its answers have a positive score.
Reading answers and comments, it is clear that is not off-topic nor an ...
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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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Misleading message claims I retracted my close vote on a question re-opened by others [duplicate]
When a question I voted to close is re-opened by others, opening the close vote modal tells me that I cannot vote again after retracting my vote:
I am not really protesting that I cannot vote again (...
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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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How can we check how often questions sent to the close queue age out?
My site is dealing with a rather long close vote review queue and we believe reviews are regularly ageing out. We want to address the problem in Meta and motivate it with stats over time about how ...
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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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How does the system determine which one close reason should be displayed on a closed question, given the close votes?
When voting to close a question, it's possible for users to vote for any close reason, even if others have voted for different reasons. However, in the end, once the question reaches five close votes ...
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View an Alert on Close Votes for New Users
Preamble
As it stands now, the View Close Votes Priv is granted at 250 Rep. That privilege includes the ability to cast close, open, and migration votes on your own questions. While it makes sense ...
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Allow hitting tab to go to Vote to Close button in Vote to Close dialog
Right now, if you Vote to Close a question, and select one of the reasons (say Not Constructive) you need to manually press the Vote to Close button by taking your mouse to it and pressing.
Could we ...
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Moderator Accountability Request
This evening I was contacted by a community member who felt my moderator-activity was too frequent. This is following the closing/migrating of several questions. Being a new moderator, I'd like to ...
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Close the question with reason [closed]
I don't know if the above title is the best suited to what I'm going to explain the problem. Here's the problem: How do we know which part of our question was not good to ask on the platform? Okay, ...
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How can I close a question on a language site that is written in that language, but off-topic?
I want to close a question on French Language that is absolutely not about the French language at all; it's just a random question in French. When I press "Close", the only options I have ...
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Should gold tag badges in required tags on meta provide insta-close-dupe functionality?
I am, apparently, one of 12 people with the gold tag badge for feature-request and one of 39 people with the gold tag badge for discussion here on meta.se. I hadn't realized this until I cast a close ...
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Waste less screen real estate in the close votes queue [closed]
In the review queue for close votes, about half my screen is devoted to things other than the text of the question. On my setup, I count a whooping 500 pixels lost to the SE header bar, the generic ...
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Grace period for submitting reviews on completed items doesn't work for "Close" reviews in the close queue
Normally, the system provides a 15-minute grace period on completed reviews, to allow users to submit a review if they loaded a task before it was completed but another user submits the final review ...
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A low rep user identified me as voting to close before the question was closed. How is this possible? [closed]
As I understand it, if you have only +10K rep, you can see who has voted to close before the question is closed.
Based on:
What can Moderators and Trusted Users see that others can't?
Can others ...
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Add an "Off-topic" option to the top level of Close popup [duplicate]
Every time when I have to close a (blatantly) off-topic question I spend time finding this option inside Close question popup. Currently it's "A community-specific reason" and then (on the ...
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Confirming that my own question is a duplicate by voting to close should have immediate effect
Someone voted to close my question as a duplicate. I agreed, so I cast my close vote (I have enough reputation to vote to close).
A question is closed immediately when the asker agrees that it's a ...
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Allow me to block other users from close-voting my posts to prevent harassment and trolling
The Problem:
My daily flags are spent on a handful of people, who I see again the next time I log in with the same nasty behavior. They won't get banned, they actually have huge positive reputations ...
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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 happens to closure flags if the question has been edited?
I recently came across a question that was clearly lacking enough detail to be answered in its current state. I commented, extensively showing that details were missing and the question was unclear as ...
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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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