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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2020: a year in closing
I am thrilled to share that this year we are continuing a tradition started by Shog9 five years ago. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange ...
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Appealing a Question Closure [duplicate]
Someone -- I don't know who -- decided to close a question I had asked because it had a "duplicate". Only the "duplicate" wasn't addressing the same situation, and the issue is ...
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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 can't I post answers to questions on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I was trying to post an answer to a question on Stack Overflow but for some reason the frontend (yes, frontend lol) had disabled the button. The button was disabled, so for posting it I had to go to ...
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How does this question “not appear to seek input and discussion from the community”?
Question in question: Is it a good practice to write an answer to respond to another answer, rather than actually answer the question?
It is closed for being off-topic with the reason:
This question ...
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Contradictory messages when question is closed and comments disabled [duplicate]
I spotted this on Super User but I believe the same or similar messages can appear on any SE site. Below are two messages that contradict each other. They appeared in a single post, one under the ...
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How to access 'Private feedback for you'?
I got this on a question I asked (no big deal - I don't care if somebody closes it). Is this a feature? How would I access "private feedback"?
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Is it “by design” that “answers in flight” are not accepted on closed questions, but that some still can submit?
Discussion
This question comes off the back of a question I asked on Stack Overflow Meta about the grace periods of answers. Specifically it was my confusion that I, personally, cannot submit answers ...
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Can we have a feature to highlight opinion based/too broad parts of a question, and add a button to reopen after address the parts?
One of my questions was closed as opinion-based: Is there any way to check for badblocks that address the two issues? - I'm really confused why it's opinion based.
Then a user mentioned that it wasn't ...
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“Question closed” notifications experiment results and graduation
Users have long been asking for and discussing the pros and cons of a feature to proactively inform the question asker when their question has been closed. Although the initial response many years ago ...
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Improve the help center page on reopening questions to not point to Meta Stack Exchange
The questions are getting closed quite often in all Stack Exchange communities, and many users (new users in particular) look for help on what it means and how to reopen them.
Current State
The Help ...
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When closing a post, send an edit request to an active community member
I'm a new lurker in psychology.stackexchange.com and I've noticed that it's getting harder and harder to ask questions, especially because the moderators have kept closing posts that are sometimes ...
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Closed post message, “Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege” is misleading
The closed post message, "Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege" to see who voted to close a question is misleading, as the list and message are only ...
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Can I no longer see who closed my question? [duplicate]
Some months ago, I could see who closed a question, but not anymore? I screenshot How did "unless" semantically shift to signify "except if"?.
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Why was the period for closed questions to enter the reopen queue extended from 5 days to 70 days?
It appears that on December 20, 2019, the team increased the period of time for questions to enter the reopen queue from 5 days to 70 days. There was no announcement made of this change at the time (...
asked Aug 28 '20 at 21:55
Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog
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Why is it possible to submit an answer to a closed question by tweaking the HTML of the page? [duplicate]
One time, I was writing an answer to a question, when the question was closed. I had spent a little time on the question, so I didn't want to lose it. The post button was disabled, so I inspected it ...
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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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If my question was closed, and I edited it, and there are a lot of answers, can I ask the answerers to vote to reopen?
My question was closed, and there are a lot of answers. I have since edited the question.
Now can I ask the answerers to vote to reopen?
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Is a question deleted automatically once the downvote threshold has been met? [duplicate]
I recently asked a question in the wrong place (which has since been closed), and as a result my reputation has suffered a bombardment of downvotes. Ok, oops, wrong place, but now I cant even delete ...
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Locked post sign on duplicate says still accepting answers [duplicate]
Over here, it's a duplicate, so it's not accepting answers, but this locked sign:
disagrees. Seems like a bug that it wouldn't recognize a closed post. Can we fix that?
If this needs different tags,...
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“Comments only” lock notice on closed questions mistakenly says that question is still accepting answers
When a question has a "comments-only" lock, the following notice is displayed on top of the question:
Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still ...
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When are multiple closure reasons provided in the post notice?
I noticed in this recently closed question that there are multiple close reasons presented.
Here's a screenshot of the post notice:
From my understanding, only one close reason is selected when ...
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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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How do bounties on closed questions work? [duplicate]
I answered a question with a bounty and my answer was accepted, but the question was closed (it was flagged as needing to be more focused). What happens to the bounty? I didn't get it, and now there ...
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When is the “Edit question” button shown on close notices?
I noticed now that on closed questions, a new button called "Edit question" shows up:
The button also shows for logged-out users, except it's titled "Improve this question":
No ...
asked Jun 16 '20 at 22:17
Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog
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Why do I get a “hooray, your question was reopened” message when the question seem not to have been closed? [duplicate]
I received today for one of my questions the following Inbox message:
I am surprised because:
I didn't even know the question was closed (I neither saw any counter on the close flag, nor the [closed]...
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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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Duplicate post notice sometimes overflows box
On my (admittedly tiny) phone screen, this is what I see for some gold badge closed questions:
When part of an object becomes the name for the whole
https://stackoverflow.com/q/61312680/6083675
MSE ...
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Which Stack Exchange website has the highest question close percentage? [duplicate]
Which Stack Exchange website has the highest question close percentage?
I see on https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats that Medical Sciences Stack Exchange's question ...
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Question Close Updates
This week we rolled out a series of changes to improve parts of the question close workflow. You can read more about the details of these changes here.
For context, the overall effort to improve ...
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Newest “exact duplicate” isn't showing the duplicate target in the close notice [duplicate]
Recently this question was closed as duplicate. However, the duplicate target isn't showing in the close banner. It shows:
This questions already exists:
Closed 3 mins ago.
However, older questions ...
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Can Community Moderators and StackOverflow employees post answers on closed questions?
Since this doesn't appear to have been asked before:
Can Community Moderators (and other Stack Overflow employees) post answers on Questions that have been closed? This would cover either manually ...
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Why are specific close reasons no longer shown to users?
Lately, I have noticed that whereas previously the exact reason a question was closed alongside who casted close votes was shown, a more generic "Off-Topic" or similar reason is shown without the ...
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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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Why is this question NOT automatically deleted by the RemoveAbandonedClosed script?
This question on Music Fans SE seems to qualify for auto-deletion by the RemoveAbandonedClosed script since it seems to satisfy all the mentioned criteria for deletion. However, I have been tracking ...
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Dynamically update closed questions
Currently, as far as I can tell, when one opens a question and it gets closed after, there is no dynamic notification about, and instead it will only be noticed after a refresh, or if one tries to ...
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Why are we so quick to close question? [closed]
I left Wikipedia years ago because of the constant warring between deletionists and whatever else you call "regular" people who contribute content instead of trying to delete everything that gets ...
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Question closed before I updated it. Do I need to just write a new one or just wait? [duplicate]
I recently asked this question: How to go about finding where traffic is getting held up?
I just now updated the question, and honestly I don't know if it's an acceptable question even now, but it's ...
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Post was closed before it even existed
I would like to report a bug. This post was apparently closed 2 years ago, but it has only existed for 1 year and 3 months. See a screenshot of the problem below.
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Does question being closed prevent bounty being started on exemplary answer to it? [duplicate]
I wanted to award a bounty to this answer to Selecting the answer - I'm sure this must have been asked
The answer was posted three days ago and the question was closed two days ago, and yet the ...
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Flagging comments should be localized
It seems like comments generated by flagging are not localized.
1) go on Русский язык stack exchange https://rus.stackexchange.com/
2) flag a question as a duplicate of some other question
3) see ...
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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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Can we have a permanent bye to “on-hold”?
Whenever I click on "Close" button to cast a close vote on an already loaded page of a closed question when it wasn't closed, this dialog appears:
But since the redesign of post notices, "on-hold" ...
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Can we kill off abandoned questions in some circumstances? [duplicate]
The SE sites tend to fill up with questions asked (usually by new folk) which get a number of requests for clarification in the comments, but the OP never returns to the crime scene.
I would like to ...
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How can I see whether a question has been previously closed?
How can I see whether a question has been previously closed?
It used to be visible in the question edit history, before the New Post Notices rollout on Stack Overflow took place.
I don't see any '...
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How do I know if a moderator has checked an on-hold question after an edit? [duplicate]
If my question got put on hold and I edited my question, how do I know if the moderator checked the edited question and leaves it on hold, since it's still not amended to the extent it can fit into ...
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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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New Post Notices rollout on Stack Overflow
New Post Notices have been launched network-wide. Please post all new feedback, bugs and feature requests to the new announcement post.
As has been previously announced, we have been working for some ...
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Question can't be duplicate of unclear question [duplicate]
If a question A is closed as unclear, it means that it is unknown what the asker meant. (Otherwise the question would have been edited rather than closed.)
If some question B is unclear (also if it's ...
