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What is the proper behavior when someone abuses the close-vote superpowers?
I got this question in the re-open vote queue.
I noticed it is marked as a duplicate of a question titled Complete and utter nonsense, which was a bit suspicious. So I looked at the bottom of that ...
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Should Stack Exchange be a little more LAX?
I often feel I need a degree to ask a question.
I was reading @Denis answer here: When is it justifiable to downvote a question?
This way of thinking is horrific.
It's like (if you have seen the ...
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It seems the Area 51 proposal close/reopen privilege is no longer enabled. What is the new community guidance for high reputation Area 51 users?
I just noticed that the vote to close and vote to reopen privileges no longer exists on Area 51. The last community closure was this "humour" proposal, completed on April 15th, just seven days ...
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votes based on opinion or just feeling is allowed in Stack Exchange?
I am aware in Stack exchange Opinion based questions and answers are not allowed as per SE guidelines.
Am I allowed to Close vote based on opinion rather than logical reasoning and judgement against ...
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Is answering on a question you vote to close considered bad practice?
User djechelin recently posted an answer I was given during a review session. I voted to close the answer as it was no explanation and mainly a link-only answer.
Please see the answer here: Print ...
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Mark a question as Duplicate with a negative scoring question
When I was doing vote cast for Close Votes that time I have found that a question is marked as Duplicate with a question which has negative scores.
So here is raising some questions:
Is it is good ...
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For questions which might belong on maths, stats, etc, is is better to vote to close or flag for migration?
I'm active on several SE sites, and on a couple of them I've tried to a few times to flag posts to move to another site (that I use actively) that isn't listed in the "off-topic" migration sites. On ...
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Audit question and duplicate
I tried to close this audit question as a duplicate: Using the 'new' modifier in C#.
I thought the duplicate was: C# Polymorphism.
Perhaps this question is not a good candidate for an audit. ...
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Is it acceptable to close HTML parsing questions as a duplicate of a Canonical?
Consider the following example:
How do I get the attributes of all the <span> tags from a string containing HTML markup? I've tried the following solution, but it doesn't work as I want it. How ...
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Do I need to read the answers when voting to close?
I normally have arguments when VTC'ing a Q with several answers, good or bad, because they tell me "but it's a good question, look at the answers". IMO, that's not a good excuse to leave open a ...
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Scenario for exhausted close votes without using review quota
Consider the following scenario
Daily CV limit : 50
Daily CV limit through review : 40
I cast 15 CVs manually and then proceed to finish my daily CV quota from the review page. I would expect that ...
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Close Queue Vote/Open Stats
I've been doing my bit on the close queue but also thinking about the larger problem and had a thought.
How many Questions get to the point where they have 4 close votes but then at that point the ...
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Too quick with the Close button for "Unclear what you're asking" [duplicate]
All too often I see questions getting closed by direct moderator action for "Unclear what you're asking", when it's obvious that English is not the asker's native language.
In many of those cases, ...
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Duplicated off-topic close reason
When clicking "Close" -> "off-topic because...", the 1st option is
Questions about general computing hardware and software are off-topic for Stack Overflow unless they directly involve tools used ...
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How to handle question where asker changes conditions? [duplicate]
What do I do with a question where it becomes clear the asker didn't give enough information in the first place? Scenario:
Asker asks, we answer. He won't accept any of our answers and says something ...
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Question with 300+ upvotes nominated to be closed, is this good moderation?
I'm relatively new to the whole moderation game, and was just served with the close queue for this (4 year old) question: window.onload vs $(document).ready()
Which is now nominated to be closed, ...
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Why are questions with a negative score and no answers in the review queue?
As everyone knows, the size of the review queue for close votes is an issue, even now that its displayed length is fuzzy.
While reviewing I often encounter questions with a negative score that have ...
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dispute review audit [duplicate]
I have just failed a review audit and was told that this question did not have any problem.
To my understanding of the SO asking rules, that question is not actually on an implementation problem, but ...
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Close vote test / audit questions and filters
I'm trying to work my way through the close vote test queue with a filter of [c], which is in essence my field of expertise. My knowledge of (e.g.) JavaScript, iOS etc is sufficiently limited that I'm ...
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Close votes big raise [duplicate]
Usually (at least since I can see them) SO had about 10k close votes
After the new moderators election (2014) close votes count dropped a lot: about 2/3k
I was quite impressed and I accounted it on ...
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Closing duplicates between StackOverflow and StackExchange [duplicate]
I have found a question on SO, which is very similar to a question on the SE community (https://drupal.stackexchange.com/).
I have tried to create a flag with the standard flags for it, but it seems ...
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Don't fail my audit just because I clicked Close [duplicate]
So today I failed my first review audit. I had gone to close questions specifically filtered with sql-server-2008 and, when this question popped up, I clicked Close simply to see why others might have ...
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Is it bad practice to look at the specific reason for closing a question before voting?
I was going through the close vote queue today and I ran into something that hadn't happened to me before
It is my general practice to, upon seeing a new question in the queue, briefly review the ...
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Daily review limit and burning down review queue
After Shog9♦'s Let's burn down the close queue! topic, I guess some alterations might be done to daliy limit for close reviews, since some Stack Overflowians reach the limit in short time.
Base Idea ...
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Posts with less than 4 close votes are displayed in close review page [duplicate]
I have just read this post about displaying only the questions with at least 4 close votes:
Now, only questions with at least 4 votes/flags are listed in the close review queue. If you're thinking, ...
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Why did the close vote queue suddenly decrease in size [duplicate]
I don't know when this happened, but one day I looked at the review page and noticed a drastically reduced number of close votes:
Only 14k?! It used to be ~150k.
Is this a massive increase in close ...
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Why is this question on topic?
I just hit an audit and failed (for my first time) and I'm wondering why.
Its this question: Detect and Log copy/paste/delete/cut operations in File Explorer in where the question is:
Is there ...
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Number of delete and close votes
I have seen some people mentioning how many close votes they have cast so far. I was trying to figure my stats correspondingly, but I have not found a way of doing that for my own account.
Currently, ...
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Is there any point in flagging an invalid answer on an old question that you've also voted to close?
For this question (and, in general, ones like it): What is a thread pool in C++ and how it is implemented?
It's definitely too broad.
Its accepted answer is definitely a link-only answer.
It's 4 ...
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Questions of limited/no applicability to others
This question was answered to the asker's satisfaction, but it involved large amounts of guesswork (reverse engineering an algorithm), is extremely specific to a particular situation, and is unlikely ...
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Looking for some close review statistics
I have an idea for encouraging Stack Overflow users to more actively review close votes, based on a theory that I have. Before I do this I want to do a little research to see if I can find any ...
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Not requiring a closing comment is good. But what about experienced askers?
It has often been proposed for closing a question to require giving a specific reason (1, 2, 3, 4). As often, the idea was rejected, mainly because it would discourage reviewers from quickly closing ...
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"A" Flagged as Dupe of "B" Which was Closed as Dupe of "A" [duplicate]
While ♫ living it up in the CVQ,♪ * I came across a dupe question being closed as a dupe of a question which already had an answer. I thought "Hey that's silly. I should just follow the link and ...
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Closure for questions asking for code [duplicate]
It seems I've fallen out of touch with closure options for "give me the codez" style questions; however, from the close dialog under off-topic because... I recall there being options such as:
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Error while closing the question
I recently visited this question, it is a duplicate of other question, and I tried to close the question but it gives error while clicking question which comes in the list. Please see attachment, so ...
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What could machine learning do for the Close Review Queue on StackOverflow?
Say a reward was offered for a machine learning system that could predict the outcome of part completed reviews, and a nice test dataset was provided, would it make a interesting project for 3rd year (...
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Are “close as duplicate” votes being timed out too quickly?
This question (now closed) is clearly a duplicate, the asker confirms it is a duplicate in a comment and at 5 people has mark the duplicate comment as helpful. The top voted answer is also a link ...
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Highly upvoted old questions would be closed immediately if asked today.
I know it was asked many times here and the historical significance should be taken into account in dealing with those questions: some highly upvoted old questions would be closed immediately if asked ...
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I can't see the close votes on my own question
I want to reopen this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20774887/how-to-validate-a-mathematical-expression. But no matter how hard I try, it is never reopened.
The close reason is the old:...
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Should questions asking about "how is X done" for 2 unrelated languages be closed/edited?
What, if anything, should be done with questions asking how to do something in unrelated languages?
Case in point - Is there a built-in function that comma-separates a number in C, C++, or JavaScript?...
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close vote queue asks "should this question be closed" instead of "should this question be put on hold"
I recently gained the privilege to look at the close vote queue, and something about the way it asks the question at the top of the page is confusing me.
It's my understanding that questions go ...
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Do you handle tool/library requests differently for languages with smaller user bases?
I've cast plenty of close votes on questions based on them being tool, library, or resource requests:
Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite
off-site resource are ...
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Should a high score question that is not within posting rules be closed?
I was reviewing the close queue and bumped into this question:
Using Git and Dropbox together effectively?
asking
Is there a good tutorial where I can learn using Git and Dropbox
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Good duplicate questions archive
I know, I'm not the first to talk about this idea, but I haven't found anything useful which is less than a couple of years old...
It seems that vast majority of questions which need to be closed ...
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How to both edit and close in the Review queue? [duplicate]
Quite often I come across questions that need both editing and closure. When this is from the Review Queue as soon as I am done editing (or closing) the queue jumps to the next question, so if I want ...
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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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How do we get question “owners” to close their question as a duplicate? [duplicate]
I often see comments like:
possible duplicate of XXXX May 27 '13 at 0:35
@abc Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
The question is then left with 1 close vote.
When I review 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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How many questions in the close queue have not been viewed in the last week?
Given:
The close queue is very large and not much progress is being made.
A bad question that no-one sees is not a real problem
So how many of the questions in the close queue are not being seen by ...
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How to correctly close questions that are too basic?
In the php tag, we receive a lot of questions that are either too basic or lacks a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. See this question for example. For some of these questions, where ...
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