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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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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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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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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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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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Incorrect icon order when a question is closed for multiple reasons [duplicate]
When a question is closed for multiple reasons, the close reasons are displayed below the "closed by" line. However, the light bulb icon is still shown above the eye icon.
Either the icon ...
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What happened to the option to close a question as spam? [closed]
I am trying to close spam, looking for the other section. It isn't there. What happened?
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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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Can the tool tip for the close votes review number be changed to denote the amount of votes and the amount of flags?
I recently asked this question where I noticed that the review item had a "(5)" for the number of "votes" it received to be closed. It confused me, since 5 votes on Arqade is what ...
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Help center page on closed questions still incorrectly indicates that feedback on closure is private, when as of recently, it's no longer so
The /help/closed-questions page on every site says:
If your question is closed, you will receive private feedback on the reason why it was closed.
However, following this change to the close notices,...
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System gets confused when I try to close a deleted question
After reopening a deleted question to see if doing so would cause the author to be notified, I tried to re-close the deleted question. The Close dialog is functional, but when I click the "Close ...
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Close vote retraction confirmation prompt incorrectly says re-voting is never allowed
There is an existing feature-request, Allow another close vote after retraction, that is marked as completed. Per that request, it is now possible to vote to close a question again after retracting a ...
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Misleading text on Help Center page about Close Votes
The Help Center page Cast Close And Reopen Votes contains some text which (probably because of changes in the flagging system) is a little bit misleading:
Note that once you gain the reputation to ...
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Retracted Close Votes shouldn't be listed under 'Profile > Votes' indistinguishable from retained ones
The title pretty much says it all. When one votes to close a question, retracts their close-vote, and then goes to the Votes tab on their profile, the question is still listed there as "Closure&...
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Question with six close votes can still be reviewed in the review queue
I got this question for review in the Close Votes queue:
Six people seem to have voted to close it, and it still lets me review it and add an additional close vote. I am aware of this, but there it ...
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Auto generated close as dupe comment appears only after a full reload
When casting a close vote (non binding) or raising a flag to mark a question as duplicate of other question, the auto generated comment "Does this answer your question? [duplicate target link]&...
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Blue close vote count wraps to two lines [duplicate]
I've got this issue on ruSO, but it probably happens on all SE sites. When closing a question as a duplicate, the number of votes already given for the same question wraps to two lines. As far as I ...
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Please tweak the behavior of the dupe "does this answer your question?" message so it does not suck
I have no problem with my question being closed as a dupe; hey, I got an answer! Yet, the way the "Does this answer your question" message works is not great at all. Let me explain.
I post ...
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Duplicate candidates: count is wrong, or scrolling is missing
I recently voted to close this question as a duplicate of this question. When I first voted to close, I inadvertently clicked on a different proposed duplicate (there were two proposed duplicates ...
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What Happened Here? Voted to Close 4 Days Ago, but No Close Votes Today? [duplicate]
Today I saw "Test to see if User/Pass entered for a WebService are correct or not", realized it was a duplicate and voted to close it.
I then saw in the comments that I had voted to close it four ...
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Cannot review a close vote item even though I can vote to close it, if I previously cast a vote and it aged away long ago
I just got this review item in the close queue, and was surprised to see "This item is not reviewable":
Going to the question at stake, I noticed this comment of mine which means I have cast a ...
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"No longer reproducible" close reason uses much smaller font sizes compared to the other close reasons
This seems to have popped up today. The "No longer reproducible" close reason now has its own header and the explanation text is much smaller:
(Might need to zoom in a touch or test it ...
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Broken links in the Close review queue [duplicate]
The text when reviewing Close Votes in /review is broken on ebooks.stackexchange.com as below:
This text is only visible when you click on the "more" link. Also replicated on MSO.
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Flagging to close shows counter next to "flag"
If I (as a user with vote-to-close privileges) click "flag" on a question, I see the ability to flag as "does not belong here, or is a duplicate".
Is this a bug? I'm quite sure I ...
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How did I manage to vote twice to close, on two separate cycles of closing?
If you look at the revision list for this question (pointed out to me by The Cat), you can see I voted to close once, then there's a bunch of deleting and undeleting, and then I somehow voted to close ...
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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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Unformatted string in new close-vote review queue format [duplicate]
In the new review queue page, in the "This question has been flagged as" section, there is a header that shows up as "subreason.InputTitle"
I believe this is unintentional since ...
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Don't dismiss custom flags when a question is closed by a moderator
Back in 2013, the system was changed so that when a question was closed, any custom moderator flags on it would not be automatically dismissed. However, this seems to only work when a question is ...
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This is a duplicate! Your challenge is to close it as such!
The duplicate selection in the Close dialog is broken. When you pick a duplicate an error appears:
An error occurred while searching; please try again
and the vote to close button stays disabled.
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Question had enough close votes to be closed, but was not closed
This question on Stack Overflow required 4 votes to close, despite the requirement on Stack Overflow being only 3 votes to close a question. A similar bug was fixed and marked status-completed in ...
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Vote To Close? Vote to Close
It is commonly held that titles do not capitalize their prepositions. When I open the close dialog I see this:
This doesn't seem right. It should read "Vote to Close" network-wide.
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Odd duplicates link for questions that were closed as duplicates a long time ago [duplicate]
I occasionally notice this odd duplicate notice, but only for questions that were closed a long time ago. Apparently there was an update that changed the interface, changed how closing questions as ...
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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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Site-wide "close" stats incorrect
On this page it claims I've only closed 11 questions. That number is way off - I've probably actually closed 10x that.
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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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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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Flagging a post before submitting the 5th close vote always results in flag being marked helpful
Okay, there's nice workaround to get some free flag weight!
What you need
3k minimal,
10k for the easiest way
Way to reproduce it
Find question with 4 close votes (10k here)
Flag that question
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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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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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Possible to vote to close for old, decommissioned close reasons (with proof of concept)
tl;dr install this user script, and it becomes possible to vote to close for old close reasons such as "not constructive" and "too localized".
After doing some twiddling with Stack Exchange ...
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Filter by tag in Close Votes review gives question without that tag
I was reviewing python Close Votes in the review queues.
When I pressed 'Next' in the review page, it gives me a question which is not related to python.
Check below screenshot
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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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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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I shouldn't be able to vote to leave open after I voted to close
(This seems like something someone would have noted already, but a cursory search here did not find any such report.)
I had a tab open with the close review queue for a specific question. For ...
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VTC comment exists after migration when it shouldn't
Based on the response to Migrating a question deleted a comment, comments regarding migration should be removed after migrating.
The following post contains a situation where the comment was not ...
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Able to mark own close flag as helpful after reaching close votes privileges
I flagged this Lifehacks question a few days ago for being off-topic. This morning, I received enough upvotes to obtain the Close Vote privileges. My flag was still pending:
I went to the question ...
