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Proposal to make close votes scale with rep

There have been several proposals for how we’re ever going to get a handle on the ever-mounting close-vote queue. Dupehammer has been especially successful, and there have been several proposals ...
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Is using reputation to scale the number of close votes the best way?

When we were working on the last se-quality-project, I wanted to introduce something into the review system that I still feel is pretty lacking. There's no way to really track your efficacy as a ...
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Is there a system in place to prevent new users asking, answering and accepting answers to each others' off-topic questions?

Normally new users are not allowed to up-vote until they gain a bit of reputation by receiving up-votes or accepts from the community of a site. But this has a weak point that is being exploited: ...
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Self-closing vs.self-deleting

What are the circumstances which determine whether a question Asker can close or delete his question? If the Asker hasn't got a good answer even after setting a bounty, should he delete his question ...
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Why not treat initial close-as-duplicate similar to answers from a rep perspective? [duplicate]

Of the vote-to-close reasons, marking as "duplicate" seems unique in that: It immediately results in the OP getting his question answered It frequently requires knowledge of the subject comparable to ...
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Is the FAQ wrong re: the ability to vote to close a question?

In comments, a user with a rep of 827 said he didn't see the close link under a question. But in the FAQ it says 250 Vote to close, reopen, or migrate your questions Is the FAQ wrong? Is ...
user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
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Close/Reopen votes - rep threshold too low?

This perfectly good question was flagged as a possible duplicate of this one. IMHO it very clearly isn't - the OP identified a particular usage pattern and asked about it. Yet it has already gained ...
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What are all the penalties to delete or close our own Questions or Answers? [duplicate]

EDIT: This is wrongly tagged a duplicate as it deals with clarifying and finding out information about penalties for the deletion and closing process, a topic that has spawned much confusion and past ...
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A proposal on how to influence the number of questions that are pending to be closed [closed]

Given that I've been reviewing close votes for a while, I can hardly reject the strong tendency to the growing number of questions with pending close votes. As per today, the number of outstanding ...
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Should close votes expire with less than 100 views

I just got enough points to review some basic lists. I noticed that the Close Votes queue is 83.6K while the rest of the queues are very close to 0 at all times. I see that this has been asked ...
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Reputation for close votes

Since I have the right to vote to close questions while reviewing I observe that the number of "Close Votes"-questions is raising. Why not getting reputation for voting to close? For example for 5 ...
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Shouldn't there be a reputation penalty if a question you closed ends up being voted for reopen? [duplicate]

I see that many questions are quickly closed on questionable reasons. In some case for just pure mistakes (e.g. marked as duplicate of a different unrelated question). Shouldn't bad closing be ...
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Is close voting too strict? [closed]

I completely agree there is a need for moderators and users with high rep to stop spammers or completely irrelevant questions. I do not agree with moderators and users with lots of ‘rep’ abusing their ...
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