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Is it okay to repost a reformulated question that is closed (or on hold)?
If you
Formulate a question vaguely
It gets closed / put on hold for this
You take the comments to heart and reformulate it
It no longer gets attention but you have not enough reputation to trigger ...
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What governs whether I see a post in the Close Votes review queue?
I answered a question, and when my answer posted I saw there was a close vote on it. I thought that was odd, so I clicked Close to see the reason. I then clicked Cancel and, since I disagreed, headed ...
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Why doesn't the reviewtasks table contain records for close reviews before July 10th, 2012
Due to reasons only known to hichris123 the close vote queue graph went dark.
As it was one of the ways to keep close voters motivated I tried to recreate that graph a little bit by using this query ...
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What happens when people are adamant on closing and not closing a question? [duplicate]
Imagine a situation where there are 10 people 5 of which adamantly want to close a question, the other 5 adamantly want it to remain open.
So the first 5 people cast close votes and the question ...
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How do Close Votes and Close Votes Review interact? Aren't Close Votes the same as Close Review votes?
We already have canonical answers on how Close Votes work and how Review queues work. This one is intended to hold one regarding their connection & interaction.
Close votes and Close Review are ...
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Years-old clearly duplicate questions not closed, weeks after voting to close
EDIT This question is about a general mechanism to draw attention to old questions that have received a new "close as duplicate" vote. It seems that the chances of an old duplicate question receiving ...
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Question flags, queues, edits, roomba, community♦, how does this actually work?
There is constant ongoing discussion about what flags to use when, review queue processing, review queue structure, flag handling, etc., but no one person seems to know exactly how this all works. ...
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What is the process by which a question is marked as duplicate by Community♦? [duplicate]
For example https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/77966/121 was:
marked as duplicate by Jens, bbgodfrey, Community♦ 10 hours ago
Neither Jens nor bbgodfrey hold a Gold tag badge applicable to ...
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Do moderators still have binding close votes for duplicate questions?
We just got a new UI for duplicate close votes. When someone flags it as a duplicate, it asks the user to see the if question that it might be a dupe of answers their question. They have the option to ...
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Rationale for disallowing close votes after rescinding my vote [duplicate]
Today, while working through the Close Votes Review queue, I was distracted for a moment and clicked to close a question for the wrong reason.
So I opened the question page and rescinded my close ...
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How can something appear on the close queue without a selected reason? [duplicate]
I was just reviewing the close queue on Electrical Engineering and came across the following question in the close votes queue:
How to convert a PNG file in to a matrix of pixels?
It didn't have an ...
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What happens when a moderator clicks 'leave open' in the close-vote queue? [duplicate]
It takes 3 ordinary users clicking "leave open" in the close-vote queue to remove the question from the queue.
How about diamond mods?
Do they remove it from the queue in one click, or not?
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Which users appear on "on hold"/"closed" messages and why?
It was my understanding that 5 votes were required to put a question on hold or to close it. However, when users who voted to put a question on hold are listed there are often not 5. This question for ...
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How to tell a community they are doing things technically incorrect? [closed]
Is there a way a member of the community can tell other members of the community that they are factually incorrect about their ongoing behavior, and offer them assistance or teaching, so they could ...
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Why do old expired close votes prevent me from ever voting to close again?
I am going through some old content on Stack Overflow and voting to close. For example, questions that are specific to one person's homework and may have been resolved with a simple typo fix or ...
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Close Vote review thresholds
Recently on Ask Ubuntu Meta I asked this question
Should we be able to review 40 close votes when the queue length is less than 1000?
Because the review queue is, in my opinion, too long and bad ...
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First preference to the questions in the Close Vote RQ under a tag where the user is familiar with that tag
I am a bit familiar with these regex, bash, awk, sed SO tags. But the questions appeared first in the Close vote Review queue is not the ones with these tags.
Without knowing anything about the tags ...
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Do enough "leave open" votes make an item fail the close-vote-queue? [duplicate]
This question is similar to a feature request from a week ago, but it's different.
Background:
On German Language we currently have problems with good questions being closed "too fast" / &...
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Can we query SEDE for the actual number of questions per tag in the close vote queue?
I used the following query Close votes per tag in the glory days of the close vote queue.
During the fuzzying I used the query to keep a sense of the actual number of questions with a close vote in ...
reneMod
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What does gold badge icon near user marked question as duplicate mean [duplicate]
Recently this question was marked by duplicate. Screenshot:
I see an icon of gold badge near user marked question as duplicate (j08691).
And how did he marked it as duplicate alone, not being a ...
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How would dupehammer react on posts with > 1 tags?
I raised this question in a comment on MSO, but I think it'd help
a wider audience as a separate question.
Let us say, there is a question tagged with more than one badge (for sake of assumption, ...
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How Do I Opt Out of Privileges?
According to multiple mods, gold badge holders can now unilaterally close questions as duplicates. I hold seven gold badges for tags on SO, which means I can, on my own, close questions as duplicates ...
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Should we close old questions in Meta.SE that pertain only to StackOverflow? [duplicate]
We are having a custom close reason for off-topic that if a question pertains to a specific site.
It's ok for new questions, since we have a separate meta site for StackOverflow now. But, we have a ...
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Should I close questions which were on-topic?
Some policies have been defined long after the some sites have opened.
A typical example is on Stack Overflow, where it took a long time to declare off-topic questions asking for off-sites resources.
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Why isn't the off-topic reason for closing the question shown?
I have found a question on Drupal Answers with 4 closing votes.
As moderator, I wanted to see what reason was chosen, but I don't see it.
Why does it happen? This is the first time I see ...
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How to view history of question close votes?
How can I see the history of close voting on a question? I'd like to see when votes were made, when they aged away, etc.
The question timeline at /posts/<question-id>/timeline does not show ...
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What is guideline on use of outdated close reasons?
I read questions the following two questions but still unclear about Close Votes queue on old questions.
What are the guidelines for reviewing?
and
Should I vote to close old questions?
I have ...
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Are custom-close-reason comments auto-upvoted when you VTC with that reason?
I just voted to close something with someone else's custom reason. Their comment with that custom reason was upvoted, apparently by me, right as the VTC "took", despite the fact that I didn't issue a ...
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Why is a question with no close votes in the Close Votes review queue? [duplicate]
I just came to this question (on Workplace) in the Close Votes review queue, where I was asked if it should be closed as a duplicate of another question. When I went to vote, however, I was surprised ...
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Mark as duplicate, original being deleted and unconsistent dialog showing [duplicate]
I just saw this question: using sed command grab lines between n blocks that had been posted by the same user one hour ago.
I marked as duplicate, but then the OP deleted the original, so now this is ...
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Should this question be kept open or closed? [closed]
How can I quickly and easily configure GHC integration for Emacs?
Asking because it was an audit for me in the close vote review queue. I clicked close and failed the audit. I don't fail many audits, ...
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Hidden off-topic reasons? (with images) [duplicate]
I've noticed that there is hidden off-topic reasons that I can't use, when flagging or closing a question. I'd like to show you this image set to demonstrate my question(in the review queue):
I see ...
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Helpful flag dropoff after gaining voting rights
After getting voting rights my helpful flag count seems to have not increased. I have 112 helpful flags, but none for about 8 months. This seems to be a side effect of gaining voting rights, since I ...
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Do veteran users get more weight in the close vote reasons? [duplicate]
I cast the last close vote on this question. It had two unclear what you're asking, one lack of information and one too broad. I voted on lack of info and that's the reason that shows up in the on-...
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Finding the review results for a specific question [duplicate]
When I vote to close or reopen a question through the review queue, I can always go back to see the review results of that question, i.e. who else reviewed that question and how they decided
However ...
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Thank you for reviewing 20 close votes today! [duplicate]
So I did what I thought was my 40 reviews in the Close Vote Review Queue today. However, when I went to see about reviewing other queues, I noticed the message for the Close Votes said, "Thank you for ...
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Can't review closed votes, but still 20 votes left [duplicate]
I was helping to burn the close vote queue and I was surprised to see the "you reached 40 closed votes today, come back in xx hours" message so soon. Now, I discover I still had 20 close votes left! ...
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Why can't I see some close reasons? [duplicate]
Today I've realized that when voting for closing questions, some of them have have an account for some reasons I can't see. For instance:
So I read that question, see that it lacks sufficient ...
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The close vote queue size is disputed
In the Tavern it turned out that the size of the Close Vote Queue is different for different users.
My number seems always to be correct (because it is the lowest) but other report a difference of ...
reneMod
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When does the Community ♦ moderator vote to close a question?
Occasionally, there are questions for which one of the close voters is the Community ♦ user. When does this happen, and why? What is the difference between this and a deleted user?
For instance, one ...
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Question only has 3 close votes in review queue
As most of us know, there has been a change to the close vote review queue. In that it is only showing the questions with 4 close votes now. However, this question only has 3. Link.
To answer the ...
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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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In which way the OP is notified about close votes?
I'm just curious (may be I'll get a pretty good conception right now ;-) ), in which way the OP's notified about a (pre-defined) reason I have selected for a close vote.
Would he/she see immediately ...
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Any way to see how many questions with certain tag(s) are in the close vote queue?
I just recently started using the filtering options for the close vote review queue. I really like it.
I was searching the data explorer to see if there was currently any methods to see how many ...
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Displaying close review queue size according to category [closed]
There are 116K items on close review queue now. But I just wonder, what is the distribution of these items according to close reason categories?
Is there a way to see which queue have how much item, ...
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Accidental "Leave Open" [duplicate]
The Close Review Queue is not pleasant. Jumped in as soon has hitting 3000. Failed two audits yesterday, and now I've managed to fat-mouse a Leave Open on this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Does the close vote aging script run twice on Saturdays? [duplicate]
I'm a regular close vote queue handler and for that reason interested in the close vote queue size. (the size itself is fine/too high/too low/depressing/suicidal/whatever: we don't need another ...
reneMod
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Why are questions with no close votes in the close review queue? [duplicate]
I have just been asked to review a few questions for closing that don’t seem to have any close votes, e.g. Upgrade Windows Store app which includes SQLite
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How was this question closed?
I was looking at some of the review votes I has cast. (I like to see how well my votes agree with other SO reviewers.)
What I didn't understand was how this question was closed.
I voted to keep it ...
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Can you help with getting some statistics on Stack Overflow voting patterns?
About 2 weeks ago we've said good-bye to some old close reasons (minimal understanding, describe specific problem, etc). Since then, I think I might have noticed a drop in the amount of votes to close ...
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