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Tagged with vote-to-close support
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What moderator tools exist to control retaliatory close votes? [closed]
Several individuals with time on their hands can practically paralyze work of the whole meta.
Users should not allege close voters are mindless or malicious or otherwise not acting in good faith
What ...
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Is there a delayed effect from reopening a question on subsequent close votes coming soon after?
This happened recently:
A question was closed as a duplicate. I wasn't involved in this closing.
It was reopened by two users with close-vote privileges but no special privileges, and one with a ...
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Close votes on "review first questions" [duplicate]
When I get questions like this one in the "first questions" review queue, what am I supposed to do?
The question had already been answered by the author in the post's comments and it was a ...
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How can we check how often questions sent to the close queue age out?
My site is dealing with a rather long close vote review queue and we believe reviews are regularly ageing out. We want to address the problem in Meta and motivate it with stats over time about how ...
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A low rep user identified me as voting to close before the question was closed. How is this possible? [closed]
As I understand it, if you have only +10K rep, you can see who has voted to close before the question is closed.
Based on:
What can Moderators and Trusted Users see that others can't?
Can others ...
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How does this close votes review have 5 votes already but is still open? [duplicate]
I was going through the close votes review queue on Arqade, and came across this review which apparently has 5 votes to close already (the number needed to close a post on Arqade), yet its still in ...
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How can I close a question on a language site that is written in that language, but off-topic?
I want to close a question on French Language that is absolutely not about the French language at all; it's just a random question in French. When I press "Close", the only options I have ...
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Can a question be immediately closed without any close votes?
One of my recent question was closed immediately (within 1 min) without any votes to close. I wonder if this is normal if the question is not blatantly off-topic, spam, etc.
We should assume that ...
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A duplicated question with bad writing and bad tagging but better answers [duplicate]
The first question was asked, with all possible tags, but received no long answers.
A few months later, the second question was asked without address the first one. The second was poorly worded with ...
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Does linking a similar question when asking a question make it less likely to get marked as a duplicate?
Let's say I want to ask a question, and I see a similar question and some answers to it but I don't feel that any of the answer tells me what I want to know. Would linking the similar question, in my ...
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Is considering a user's track record before voting to close considered acceptable?
On History Stack Exchange, we have a policy of heightened scrutiny on questions that involve certain controversial topics due to the frequency with which these topics are used by trolls. One ...
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Is there any actual harm in voting to close spam, as long as you flag?
There's no question that spam should be flagged as spam. That's what the flag is for. But sometimes people also vote to close with various custom close reasons. Is there any harm in that provided they ...
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Are there times that questions are more or less likely to get closed as off-topic before they can get answers?
I was wondering whether the time that a question is posted has an effect on whether the question is likely to get closed as off-topic. I noticed that some questions that look like they fit the ...
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Daily reviews doesn't match votes available. Why is that?
What's the difference between "your daily reviews" and the "votes left today" in the review queues?
Here's a visual from SO's close vote queue where you can cast 40 close votes (...
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What is the benefit (rep?) to someone who votes to close a question? [duplicate]
What is the benefit (rep?) if any to someone who votes to close a question? Is that benefit still there at all if the vote is wrong?
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Why do negative scores of example questions on Area 51 get reset to 0 whenever someone votes to close them?
I just cast the final close vote to close some example questions on an Area 51 proposal. Those questions had very low scores, around -3 and -5.
However, as soon as the questions got closed, their vote ...
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Why can deleted questions be reopened but not closed?
You can vote to reopen a deleted question, as shown in the below screenshots:
However, you cannot vote to close deleted questions; if you try you just get a popup that says "this question is now ...
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What is the status of three-vote closure testing on non-SO sites?
In the Community Roadmap for Q4 of 2020, one of the goals for November 2020 is
Three-vote Close and Reopen Tests
Three-vote closure has been requested by many many sites, including the one I ...
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Can we know who voted to close a question and then retracted their vote?
Some time ago, I was browsing through the history of the close votes review queue of a group and I noticed that a certain question had been closed after five users having voted there to close it (and ...
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Should the question be closed if it has been answered in another thread of some website?
The question which has been answered in some other website should be marked closed in Stack Overflow? It can help to find active questions and reduce time to investigate duplicate questions with other ...
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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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When voting to close and migrate to another site, how can I add another site? [duplicate]
When voting to close (or in such cases migrate) a question:
Community specific
What site does this question belong on?
expatriates.meta.stackexchange.com
Here one site is given, but I would like to ...
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Is there a way to find out if I've ever both voted to close a question and posted an answer to it?
I just noticed that someone voted to close a question and posted an excellent answer at the same time. I wanted to tell them that I thought it was unfair to do both with an argument involving ...
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How come I don't see a close button on Electrical Engineering SE site? [duplicate]
I am a member of a fair number of sites on the Stack Exchange network.
On most of them, I see a "vote to close" button on posts.
I have 900+ rep on the EE SE, but don't see a close button. ...
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Close voters can be seen by those without the privilege to do so [duplicate]
This is what I see from my account (which has the close vote privilege):
It says "Viewable by the post author and users with the close/reopen votes privilege," yet this is not true.
Here is ...
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Can I retract a close vote after the question is closed?
I recently came across a problem that I was unable to solve.
By accident I voted to close a question. The vote was intended for a different question. It's not something that happens often, but in ...
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Comment notifications for close voters: regression from 2018?
According the the comment reply FAQ, it's possible to @-notify close voters in a very particular set of circumstances:
For questions: The moderator or gold badge holder who closed or reopened the ...
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What happens when a question in the Close Votes review queue is self-deleted (and undeleted)?
I had flagged this now-deleted question on Stack Apps because it appeared to be a duplicate of this question by the same author. The author has now removed their own 'duplicate' question, but my flag ...
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How can I close my own bad question after putting a bounty on it?
I asked a question about a problem that can not be reproduced. I was assuming a database state that was not correct (a query on a table that does not exist).
It's fine if the points are gone, but I ...
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Close Vote Regeneration [duplicate]
When I vote to close a question, there's a message saying that I have X votes left. I assume those regenerate after some time? What are the rules on that? Is it different for different sites across ...
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Why don't off-topic close notices indicate which specific users voted for specific off-topic canned reasons anymore?
In the old notices, on questions closed as off-topic, the notice would not only indicate all of the close voters who closed the question, but also the specific users who voted for specific canned ...
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Description of the "Flag as duplicate" doesn't match official staff reply
I know I'm not the only person noticing inconsistencies in the description since it started
Should we change the description of "Duplicate of"?
Duplicate explanation should encourage ...
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How does the system determine which one close reason should be displayed on a closed question, given the close votes?
When voting to close a question, it's possible for users to vote for any close reason, even if others have voted for different reasons. However, in the end, once the question reaches five close votes ...
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When to close a bug report as no longer reproducible?
See User profile pages broken.
It is a bug report from 2017. At one point it was closed after being marked status-completed for the reason:
The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. ...
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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 ...
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Do I regain reputation from voting to close my own massively downvoted question?
I have a massively downvoted question with no answers and already has 2 votes to close. Does closing or deleting both refund my reputations lost?
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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 ...
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How does a <3000 rep user cast a close vote on their own question? [duplicate]
A question on The Workplace - Boss expects me to attend meetings I was never informed about? - was recently put on hold, but something looked funny in the close votes:
The author has less than the 3,...
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Question with close votes not appearing in close queue
There is a question for which I can see 4 close votes. I checked the Close Votes review queue, but strangely, it doesn't appear there. Why?
Some more info:
The post is a meta post on EE.SE. There ...
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Counter on the close vote dialog starts from 50, but I can only cast 40 a day
Immediately before casting my 40th vote at the end of yesterday (GMT) the close vote dialog showed 11 votes remaining:
After casting that vote I was shown that I'd hit my 40/day maximum:
And now ...
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What exactly "duplicate comments" will be upvoted if I cast a subsequent dupe vote?
This is not a duplicate of Autocomment when voting to close as duplicate as that simply indicates that the feature exists. This is a "how" question asking how this feature actually works, which that ...
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Close votes not showing up on the closure banner
There was a question I remember voting to close, but my vote doesn't show up on the closure banner:
My vote was cast about two hours before the mod closed/voted it.
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Why can't you vote to leave open after previously voting to close and reopen?
Here's an interesting scenario:
A question was closed as off-topic. I voted to reopen it and it was eventually reopened. However, in the process of getting reopened the question was edited. I closed ...
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How were the off-topic close reasons previously displayed? [duplicate]
I just came across this question on English.SE. The banner says it was closed by a moderator as "general reference", which is not one of the 5 standard close reasons (duplicate, off-topic, too broad, ...
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Retrieving sequence of Review Tasks Results (within a date)?
Is it possible to know (be sure) the sequence of review tasks results, even though the time data from 'CreationDate' is removed (i.e., there is only date, not time)?
Let me explain better. I want to ...
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How do posts get closed as duplicates vs exact duplicates? [duplicate]
I've come across some posts that said they were closed as exact duplicates, and some that were closed as duplicates.
The first image is a duplicate question and the second one is an exact duplicate.
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Why does this question show 2 different close reasons?
I just found this closed question. The banner saying it was closed shows 2 different reasons and who voted for each reason.
I've never seen this before. From what I've read, only the close reason ...
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How can a mod retract their own accidental close/reopen vote without consuming others' votes?
How can I undo my vote to close a question? I accidentally closed this question - it was in the close review queue and (mea culpa) half asleep I accidentally hit the close button. It already had three ...
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Why can't I recast aged close votes and flags that were cast a long time before the change allowing recasting?
In March 2015, a change was made to the close voting system, to allow users to recast close votes and close flags 14 days after they age away.
However, according to this post, apparently votes that ...
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How can I change which question the current question is a duplicate of? [duplicate]
I would imagine this is a fairly common situation, but I haven't found it discussed:
I vote to close a question as a duplicate of a specific other
question.
The asker edits the question so that it's ...
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