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Allow moderators to view close and delete vote history
Currently, moderators cannot view anything in the "Votes" tab of the profile of other users.
Quite sensibly, we can't view individual up/down votes at all. However, the other four tabs (...
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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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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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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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Replace "You have already voted to close ...." after retracting vote
After retracting a close vote, the close dialog says You have already voted to close this question. But this statement is false as we retracted our vote, we are no longer able to vote again and our ...
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Show that there's a pending suggested edit in the Close/Reopen Votes review queues
I just encountered this question in the Close Votes review queue. Suppose I want to keep it open, but also correct the various grammar mistakes in the post. There's an Edit button for that (since I ...
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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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A site option to delay appearance of questions in the close vote review queue
I specifically have (the recently graduated) Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair in mind while writing this, but I'm going to go with the assumption this is applicable to some of the other smaller ...
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Notify users of a question they closed being edited or nominated for reopening
This is brought up by a chat discussion on Code Review.
The idea being, when you Vote to Close a question (and it subsequently get's closed), you get a notification when the first Vote to Reopen is ...
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Can we include the default text when creating a custom off-topic close vote in iOS?
I was on a question on ELL earlier and needed to vote something closed. I was on my iPad at the time and submitted a close vote with a custom "other" reason. I'm so used to the default text: ...
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Final vote to close doesn't update the UI
I just gave the final vote to close on this question through the iOS app. As it doesn't show the number of close votes already, I was curious to see the status so I opened the question in Safari.
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Improved spacing in vote-to-close dialog
When voting to close a question that has multiple reasons the spacing between the preamble and the list of possibilities doesn't look appropriate:
Understandably the unordered list in the top and the ...
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Age close votes after 14 days, regardless of views, allowing recasting
I've been putting this off for a long time...
Close vote aging - the deactivation of votes that haven't resulted in a question being closed - is a critical part of the vote-to-close system, but has ...
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There's no guidance in the help center for retracting close votes
I've seen a few questions around here about retracting close votes, and they bring up two primary points:
It's not obvious that opening the close menu again will allow you to retract a close vote you'...
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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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Help us find duplicates efficiently
I have recently started using a new device and I am discovering
Just how immensely helpful the various browser caches are on my earlier device for locating duplicates
just how erm, poor the Closing->...
user147520
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Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders
In order to increase the efficiency with which poor quality questions are closed, it could make sense to have weighted close votes for a small subset of qualified users.
A very good way to measure ...
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Don't submit flag or close vote immediately on tapping reason in iOS app
The current process for flagging or voting to close in the iOS app is very susceptible to fat-fingering. A list is presented, and as soon as you tap an item from that list, that's accepted as your ...
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If I flag a question, then get close vote privileges, I should be allowed to vote to close it [duplicate]
I've just passed the threshold for being able to vote to close on another SE site. Some of the questions I flagged prior to having this privilege are still in the review queue because not enough votes ...
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Subsequent duplicate close votes should automatically upvote the possible duplicate comment
When voting to close as a duplicate, an automatic comment is generated, that's good.
But sometimes that comment is lost in the influx of other comments, not visible to viewers or sometimes the OP (...
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Warn that editing questions in the Close Votes review queue will dismiss it from the queue
Editing a question in the Close Votes review has a rather unexpected consequence: the question is immediately removed from the queue. I'm pretty certain that not all people noticed this. See for ...
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Stack Overflow needz moar ads
This got me thinking...
Not about a contest though. I don't want people reviewing questions so that they'll get something in return; folks should be doing it because they care about the questions, ...
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Please add close flags, duplicate links and review data to the public data dump
Over the past year, a lot of meta data has been changed or added to the system:
Review tasks and results
Duplicate links (separate from close votes and ad-hoc editing conventions)
Close votes as a ...
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Allow direct linking to a filtered /review queue
I'm really missing the ability to give folks an easily-digestible chunk of the close review to chew on by simply handing them a link to the pending review items in their favorite tag. This was ...
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Self-deletion and un-deletion without any changes should reinstate the original close/delete votes
Currently, when a user self-deletes a post and subsequently undeletes it, any votes to delete or votes to close magically disappear as if they never happened. While that might make some sense if a ...
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Don't let flag-to-close flags linger for months in flag purgatory
Here is the close queue:
Here is an active flag I have:
I currently have 5 flags pending in the close queue. Some, like this one, are months old. This doesn't feel right and may discourage ...
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Easy close review queue filtering interface
Short version:
Make a filter selection page the default entry point for the review queues
Show the size of the queues for tags they are likely able to work with - not the whole queue
When all review ...
user213963
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Sort Order on Close Vote Queue
The Close-Vote queue is large and growing. I searched for definitive information on how that queue is sorted for reviewers, and the nearest I could find is that it is randomized - but that post was ...
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Rename "It doesn't belong here" into "It needs to be closed"
The current flagging dialog for questions gives you the following options:
it needs ♦ moderator attention
very low quality
other…
it doesn't belong here, or it is a duplicate…
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Show sub reasons in close review queue
Currently close vote review queue shows the top level
close reason in the header, but some close reasons, for
instance, off topic have very different sub reasons. For
instance, "demonstrate minimal ...
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Meta duplicates don't require an answer. Don't suggest there is one when that's not true
This request was sparked by this particular question. The vote to close as a duplicate on meta, in contrast to the main site, does not require for the duplicate to have an answer. Yet, the closure ...
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Enlarge the clickable area of closing reasons
Only the text and the radio button of closing reasons are clickable. However, a full-width clickable area would be easier to hit and less frustrating. IIRC, this was also possible in the past.
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user146787
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Require the "Other" off-topic close reason to be specified
It appears that it's possible to select the "Other" off-topic close reason, and vote to close without actually providing a close reason. This results in a custom close reason and comment which read:
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Minimum length of free-text off-topic reason is too long
When I use the new vote-to-close dialog on meta and want to add my own free-text off-topic reason then I have to enter at least 30 characters to the existing sentence.
I think this is too much. I ...
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Close Vote Review Audits are too obvious
The other day, I got an obviously good question in a Close Vote Review. Even if I didn't read the question, +11 with 3 answers is a bit of a giveaway. Today I got one where the question was almost ...
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Please put answers underneath questions in Close review queue
Many times when going through the Close queue I see that people are using the too localized reason. Sometimes the reason for this is in the comments (like the syntax error being pointed out), but a ...
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Remove votes to close question X as a duplicate of Y if question Y is closed as a duplicate of X [duplicate]
I just happened across this question (let's call it question A), which has one close vote suggesting that it be closed as an exact duplicate of this question (which I'll call B).
This suggestion is ...
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The Edit action should not kick a post out of the Close Votes queue
According to Emmett's answer, an Edit action on a post immediately dequeues it from the close votes queue. But why? That doesn't seem very productive. Just because someone edits a question doesn't ...
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Let diamond moderators see who is voting to close or delete a question or answer
On a question with votes to close or a question or answer with votes to delete, the diamond moderators should be able to see who these users are. This information becomes public record if the post ...
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Let moderators navigate the review queues at will
This post is an expansion of this comment
For many graduated sites (eg Physics), moderators do not want to apply the unilateral close vote in all cases--it is better to let some community votes pile ...
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Explain why a 60 day old post can't be migrated when voting off-topic
There have been a number of Meta posts confused as to Why can't I migrate this particular question? There's no feedback indicating why you don't get the "belongs on" menu when selecting the option,...
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Browse "Close Votes" by tag [duplicate]
I tried to browse posts in Close Votes section from Review Beta by tag. I think it is not possible or at least I couldn't figure it out.
I think it will be interesting to enable this option as it is ...
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Don't migrate old off-topic questions in the Close Votes review queue
I've just come across this question, from the Close Votes section of the new review page. It's over two years old and has two answers, one accepted.
It also has 4 Off-Topic close votes for it to be ...
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Notify upvoters and answerers when a question is closed [duplicate]
In an ongoing discussion about whether closed questions should be deleted unless improved, a painful corner case has emerged: what to do with bad questions that have good answers?
Whatever the answer ...
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Don't nag me when I'm on the page of a question that I've answered which I've just migrated
On meta, when a question you've answered is migrated, you will receive a banner at the top of the screen:
However, if I am on the page and the person responsible for migrating the question because:
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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 ...
user149432
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Why was /review/close taken away for under 10k users? Can it be put back?
Recently users with the ability to Vote to Close were able to access the /review/close page. I thought this was awesome, and over at Super User, was able to help close questions faster than ever. I ...
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Integrate close and delete votes into /review [duplicate]
It's recently been mentioned in some chat conversations that low-reputation close flags are given too high an importance for moderators and should be directed to the community instead. It's been ...
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Can't vote to close from the mobile site?
The (fairly) new mobile layout is great and very functional. However, it seems there's no "close" link next to "edit" and "flag" when viewing a question. The flagging interface works just fine in the ...
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Don't automatically edit the post to insert "possible duplicate" links
When a question is closed as a duplicate, its body is edited to auto-insert the link to that duplicate. I think there are a couple problems with that:
If the question is reopened, the auto-generated ...
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