Questions tagged [closed-questions]
General questions about questions that have been closed because they are off-topic or otherwise do not meet the criteria defined in the FAQ.
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Don't display "protected" notice if the question is locked or closed
If the question is locked, obviously new users can't post answers to it because no one can post answers. It seems somewhat redundant to list that box there. I'm not saying remove the protection from ...
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2017: a year in closing
Last year I posted some numbers on how many questions were closed on various sites around the network in the preceding year. This ended up being kinda handy to refer back to, so I'm gonna do it again: ...
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2019: a year in closing
Closing and reopening questions is a very small part of what goes on around this network... But it gets a lot of attention, and always has. Particularly over the past year, as we've tested some pretty ...
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2022: a year in closing
Let’s take a look at how last year looks in terms of closing across the network. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange sites in 2022.
The same ...
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Discouraging repwhoring - Reverse rep from answers posted shortly before the question gets closed
TL;DR I'm proposing the following:
When someone posts an answer and the corresponding question is closed within a certain amount of time after that, then, for certain close reasons, all rep gained ...
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Questions closed for multiple community-specific reasons should be clear about that fact
It happens sometimes - especially on Stack Overflow - that a question will receive three close votes for community-specific reasons (i.e., as off-topic), and each voter will choose a different reason. ...
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2023: a year in closing
One of the traditions we have here on MSE as the calendar year changes, is to post some statistics about post closures and reopenings across the network for the preceding calendar year. In light of ...
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Review Audit Fail - closed question served as known good in reopen queue
The review audit pulled a total fail today. As in a "Go home, Review Audit, you're appallingly drunk" fail.
The subject question (Progs 10k+ only link) remains closed, and was closed by a ...
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Why is the close reason for this question from another stack?
This question was recently closed on Arts&Crafts.SE
https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2066/freelance-artist-needs-to-earn-extra-cash
In case something changes this is the close text:
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No comment posted when question is closed as off-topic because ... > other
When closing a question (as a mod, so binding vote) using Close > Off-topic because ... > Other and entering a comment to explain why it was closed the question get closed but the explanatory comment ...
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Can we bring ancient duplicates up to date?
In the past, before we had the current closure notes the community user edited in the possible duplicates inside the text of the question, once the question got closed. See for example here.
Today ...
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Help Center documentation should be updated to reflect new procedures for closed questions
The Help Center page "What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?" contains the following:
If a moderator (user with a ♦ symbol after their name) closed the ...
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Why is there no statute of limitations for the Explainer badge family for closed questions? Can it please be added?
The Explainer, Refiner, and Illuminator badges (collectively, the edit and answer badge family) are awarded for answering and editing a question within 12 hours of each other, with the answer being ...
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Is there a way to recover how people voted to close a question post-close?
When the question has close votes (<5), and you click on "Close" link, in the dialog for closing it shows you how many people voted for each of separate options (e.g. 1 voted as Duplicate, 3 voted ...
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Display the custom close reason when closed as such
Background
As per this bug report where a custom close reason is used the actual close reason is shown as:
This question does not appear to be about Stack Overflow or the
software that powers the ...
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Given how well the reopen queue works, should it be easier to close questions
The reopen queue seems to be working very well.
Lots of effort has been made in the past to stop questions being closed in error.
If the person that asked a question had a “right of appeal” against ...
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Do non-duplicate closed questions contribute to a post ban?
We know from the FAQ on duplicate questions that:
[T]here's no automatic penalty if your question gets marked as a duplicate of another.
via an edit from Tim Post with the summary:
Other ...
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Add Meta as help venue on the on-hold/closed notice
Nowadays, the closure message says:
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question or leave a comment. {Why is Meta not here?}
Ask Ubuntu:
Code ...
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noindex and nofollow "bad" questions?
Do you think it's a good idea to add
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
HTML tag for questions that have a negative score, no answers and are closed? They are not what I'd ...
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Site email says closed questions are not visible to the public: wrong
The website documentation has been corrected, but this email form letter
is still inaccurate
From: Stack Overflow <[email protected]>
Subject: Your question has been closed
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Closed question on Hot Network Questions list
The question The list of every type of sound all instruments can make? on Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange was still on the Hot Network Questions list, despite being closed half an hour ago:...
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Questions that are migrated to a site and then closed as unclear, too broad, or primarily opinion-based should not be locked
When a question is posted on one site and then migrated to another, if it ends up closed for any reason, it ends up locked on the new site. That is, it can't be voted on or edited. A diamond moderator ...
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Can .question-status have a different background-color than blockquote & pre?
The .question-status div, which displays info about the question's duplicate, etc., blends in with other parts of the question.
This screenshot is from StackOverflow:
This confuses users. Can it ...
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Notification when a favorite was closed or deleted
I mark a question as favorite when I feel it's important for me to keep it for future reference, and stay informed of the updates/new content.
So, if it gets closed, probably I want to vote for ...
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Please keep closed & locked posts from showing up in searches
Let's have search not show results with closed & locked posts in them. Most of the material on locked posts are polls, or aren't relevant to current questions. We will need to implement locked ...
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When a question is closed, the new Stacks editor is disabled instead of the Post Answer button
When a question is closed while you're writing an answer, you'll see an orange banner
This question has been closed - no more answers will be accepted.
which disables the 'Post Your Answer' button. ...
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Have there been analyses to see if views of well-received answers are reduced by closure as duplicate which try to control for other factors?
This is a narrowly-scoped question; I'm just curious if this has been investigated quantitatively.
Background only:
I spent some substantial time and effort and love and coffee writing this answer to ...
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Request for on-hold question to be re-opened
This question was put on hold as being unclear what was being asked — I edited the question for clarity & flagged it for moderation attention (I don't have reopen vote privileges), but it's ...
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Show the close reason in the top bar when reviewing Reopen votes
tl;dr: Imbed the close reason in the top bar when reviewing Reopen votes.
Currently, the top bar when reviewing reopen votes (the one with the buttons on it) says this:
This question was edited ...
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Under profile on all actions, closed status isn't indicated on questions
On your profile, when you go to your 'all actions', I'm trying to find certain questions which may be reopened - that is, no longer closed (cough hats cough).
Example on my profile
Several of these ...
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Display "Your question could use some improvements" hint banner for all close reasons
When a question is voted to be closed as a duplicate, the user gets a lovely banner that tells them their question might have been asked before, and even asks them whether they want to accept the ...
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I just cast the sixth close vote on a question
put on hold as off-topic by toro2k, Wayne Conrad, Uri Agassi, eugen, MikDiet, Undo 10 mins ago
Can anyone see the problem here? Yes, I just cast the sixth close vote on this question. Pretty much all ...
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Has the post-closing grace period gone?
I was writing an answer to this a moment ago and, perhaps 10 seconds before I submitted it, I saw a notification in the corner of my eye. It turns out that this notification was for the question ...
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When a question is closed as off-topic the FAQ link should take to the page showing which questions are on-topic
I closed a question as off-topic, and the closure message is the following one:
Questions on Drupal Answers are expected to relate to drupal within the scope defined in the FAQ. Consider editing ...
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Could we have guidance on the closure question update notifications?
I recently had a question closed, then reopened and I was pleasantly surprised that I was given a notification of its closure and reopening.
As an experienced user, particularly on meta, I probably ...
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Can migrated closed questions be considered for automatic deletion by the RemoveDeadQuestions and RemoveAbandonedClosed scripts?
Migrated questions that were closed a long time after the migration (and as such weren't marked "rejected") are not automatically deleted by the RemoveDeadQuestions and RemoveAbandonedClosed ...
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Add "open" or "closed" to "question-summary" class attribute in question list HTML source
In a list of questions (such as on the home page) the HTML block for each question has a containing div like:
<div class="question-summary narrow" id="question-summary-123456">
I am requesting ...
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Include question closure in heartbeat
The heartbeat now includes post deletion (it updates live when a post is deleted), which was added recently (I still cannot find a reference for the new addition).
Can we please also have the closure ...
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"closed" indicator does not show up properly in chat onebox
I recently posted a onebox link to a closed question in chat. I noticed one weird thing, though: the "[closed]" indicator does not show up in the chat onebox:
I'm expecting a similar problem to ...
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Revisions of a question still shows "closed" instead of "on hold"
Let's start with an example post which was placed on hold as off topic (I know recently "Closed" was changed to "On Hold" for the first 5 days). When viewing, it says "on hold"...
But, if you view ...
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Can moderators please migrate without reopening a question?
I'm seeing this more frequently now that we have the review queues (even if the post is flagged for potential migration) and questions are getting closed more quickly without moderator intervention. ...
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Why am I not able to merge a migrated, closed question with an existing question?
I was trying to merge a migrated, and already closed question, but the moderator menu didn't allow me to merge the questions.
As the merge is from the viewed question to the question for which I ...
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What determines the "reason" for leaving closed in review that's shown in the close notice?
Today, when reviewing to leave a question closed in the reopen queue, there's an option to select which close reason still applies to the question, or that the original close reason was not resolved. ...
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Cause some closed questions to not grant answer rep
I was just reading this question and thinking about potentially better ways to improve on the situation presented there
So - we take as a given that we want to discourage people from making poor ...
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What to do about non-duplicate question about to be closed as duplicate?
I'm a little concerned about a question I recently asked.
Someone came along and voted to close as duplicate but it seems that was done without reading the two questions (you can see the other ...
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Why is this question "too localized"?
This question regarding theming Drupal views was quickly closed as "too localized" and I fail to understand why. Views is a de facto standard module for Drupal and the problem the OP was facing is ...
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Closed post message "List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege" is misleading
It says
List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege
Apparently, that's not the case as mentioned in
How could we improve our planned post notice improvements?...
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What percentage of closed questions that get submitted for review are eventually re-opened?
Just curious, what percentage of questions that get submitted (and/or re-submitted) for review by the post owner get eventually reopened after the "significant edit" option was added to the ...
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Close banner jumps around comments after refresh
Before refresh, when page was left open the question closed:
After refresh:
Why does this swap from above comments to below? Could it be more consistent?
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How do votes on closed questions affect a question ban?
Writing a question that is later closed is not a good thing. Enough of these will lead to a question ban.
Two things that mitigate against a question ban, are upvoted answers, and upvoted other ...
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