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Reporting Close-Voting misuse [closed]
I sometimes come across a question on SO from a new user that was structured well, asked properly and the user showed their code, etc. Essentially it's a good question and follows the rules.
But I ...
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Will the remaining questions here that belong on MSO, eventually get migrated?
The last couple of weeks I've been closing some questions in the review queue that were asked before the split but currently belong on MSO.
From what I understand, the point of that is to eventually ...
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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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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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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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Close Vote Review Limit Recommendations
Summary
As many of us are aware, the number of questions in the close vote review queue has been increasing at what appears to be a faster pace than ever. During the month of December, I observed that ...
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Why are there still 100K+ closes in the close review queue after two close reasons were removed?
Shouldn't all of the flags and close votes for the recently-removed close reasons have been deleted?
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Close Vote Maths [closed]
Apologies if this is a repeat, I know the close vote queue has been discussed a lot but I've not actually seen these figure anywhere and just in my short time on the site the close queue has grown by ...
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Why is a question about measuring cat feces an audit for close votes? [closed]
Counting column data in a matrix with resets starts off with:
I'm gathering data on how much my cats poop into a matrix:
Most shockingly, this line says:
The cumsum function does something ...
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Looking for advice on Close reasons
I have some fear that just mentioning COBOL will illicit about 50 useless clutter-comments of vast wit. So let's just assume everyone who has something funny to say, then they don't have to actually ...
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Close Votes system slightly altered?
I was wondering if there was any change made to the Close Votes system? The number of unresolved reviews in the queue is day from day lower and lower.
I noticed that a few days ago, because it is ...
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What is important about closing questions
I've cast well over 1000 close votes (in review tasks and just seeing bad questions), only to see the queue continually grow. That's rather disheartening.
But now I wonder why it was so important to ...
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Breakdown of questions in VTC queue
I was looking at this answer about flags being shown in the VTC queue. I was wondering if flags counted as a significant part of the VTC queue, as the queue is over 100K.
It would be nice to get some ...
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What difficulties could be there to show amount of posts that match my filter in the SO CV queue?
I am interested to track the progress in "my neck of woods", that is to roughly estimate how many posts in the queue match the filter I selected (FWIW, my current filter is "primarily opinion-based" ...
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What is the cause of this sudden drop in CV queue size?
At Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:51:01 GMT, there was a sudden drop in the close votes review queue size from 98932 to 98314. This is about 600 questions over the course of one minute.
It doesn't seem like a ...
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Close Votes review: I'm NOT going on a strike! [closed]
In direct contrast to this post:
Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike!
I'd like to say: I'm not going on strike!
... and I'd like you to do the same.
But... why?
Yes, I am frustrated ...
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Can't get Data Explorer results to agree with StackOverflow close vote queue size
I'm messing around with Data Explorer and having some trouble getting results that match the Stack Overflow close vote queue size displayed on /review.
The review page says the current queue size is ~...
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Close Vote Review - Can we just get a Community Wiki on this? [duplicate]
Seriously, in just the last few hours we have:
Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike!
Reward me for my community service
Allow direct linking to a filtered /review queue
Display the number of ...
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Close review queue rep
From what I have read, StackOverflow is having a huge problem with close review questions. I just crossed over 400 rep on StackOverflow, and would like to help. I have been dismayed to find, however, ...
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Close Votes review: I'm going on a strike! [closed]
I know this question is going to make me unpopular here – but I feel I have no other options.
I have been concerned by the size of the close votes review queue for quite a while.
When I ...
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What's the policy on 'Convert my SQL to LINQ' questions? [duplicate]
I'm seeing a lot of questions recently along the lines of, "Convert this SQL query to LINQ for me" followed by a copy/paste of a SQL query.
I've started voting to close when I see these under "Must ...
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Should we reduce the required reputation to review close votes? [duplicate]
I have tried to find a duplicate of the question but not able to. so please excuse me if there is a duplicate of this.
This is my suggestion that we should reduce reputation cap require to review "...
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How do I flag a question that should be closed for none of the provided reasons? [duplicate]
So I just came across this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19908316/ruminations-on-technology-trust
And wanted to close it on the grounds that it has absolutely nothing to do with ...
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How can I make a bigger dent in close vote reviews? [duplicate]
I have 40 close votes per day, which I can go through in 15-20 minutes on reviews (or much less if I filter to opinion-based/too-broad).
The current close vote queue size is 90.7k. At 4 remaining ...
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Can someone analyze the Close Vote queue on StackOverflow? [duplicate]
Can someone with access to the right data produce some analysis of the Close Vote queue?
When I work out how, or when I can do it, there will be a substantial (for me) Bounty for something effective. ...
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Reviewing Close Votes, is just too painful, make it easier [duplicate]
I have been reviewing close voted questions for a while now. And I am not feeling encouraged to close questions since the numbers are just growing. I feel really responsible for allowing SO to have so ...
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Why not raise the individual number of Close Votes? [duplicate]
I'm seeing for a long time that the review for Close Votes just raises every hour, is at least 1k per day. This is out of control. I have some old flags that never was reviewed and in this way never ...
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How to handle ever-increasing number questions pending closure in the review section [duplicate]
Ever since I gained 3000 rep on SO, I've noticed that the number of questions pending review for closure has increased consistently. It must have been 2 or 3 months ago that I first got rep to start ...
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Tweaking close requirements to manage the close queue
There have been no shortage of ideas to get the close queue manageable. Here's one more: let's fundamentally re-think how many votes it takes to close a question.
Currently, diamond mods can close ...
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Proposed contest for close review queue posse [closed]
Many hands make light work.
I propose that we offer a coveted Stack Exchange coffee mug to the top 25 people who work to clear the close queue in the next 45 days, and a USB rocket launcher to the ...
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Request for review: close/reopen "known good" audits
The difficulty of some review audits in the /close and /reopen queues has been brought up here a few times recently. It's true: a few of these audits are difficult, if not outright misleading. We've ...
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What's up with the Review Audits -- I believe this is incorrect [closed]
I was trying to make a dent in the VTC queue, and came across this question.
Phonegap 3.0.0 + Android always wants to use remote environment
I read it through, and VTC - Unclear, as there was no ...
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Daily close votes queue limit [closed]
This question is related to this (jan23), this (mar 12) and many others; with the difference that close queue on SO today is 20k longer = 74k.
I read & understand about the fear for robot-...
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Close Vote Funnel and Metrics
Since the recent change to Close-Votes the number of votes in the Close review queue has been growing dramatically. This has been discussed. Most of these discussions center around whether there is ...
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Daily Close-Vote review queue [closed]
The close-vote review queue gets bigger and bigger every day.
Some say they are discouraged by the sheer number of outstanding close-votes. What can we do to encourage reviewing? Display a fake ...
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Should I vote to close a question if it has an accepted answer?
The Stack Overflow close queue is at 68K question, and some questions voted for closure reach reviewers sometimes 6-10 hours after being posted. I don't actually know how long since the first flag/...
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Automatically filter the Close Votes review queue to active tags for newbies
I am a little puzzled over this subject.
Why does the number of items in the "close votes review queue" is always increasing?
Compared to "suggested edits" - there are fewer items in the close votes ...
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Close an opinion based question with a bounty on it
I just found this question on the CSS featured page:
Is a table layout appropriate for full-screen single-page HTML applications?
This looks like a pretty obvious "primarily opinion based" question, ...
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Would raising the review limit help with the Close Votes queue? [closed]
We all know the problem with the close votes queue, but it seems the problem is people not reviewing enough. Whenever I had time, I would go through all 40 that I was given, but by then I wanted to do ...
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Ideas for the close queue? [closed]
I am concerned on the growing close votes review queue size. I know it has been discussed before.. more than once, and I simply want to propose some ideas...
Why not separate the single close votes ...
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Suggestion: close votes review queue [duplicate]
The size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions. 2,331 review were made today, It is decreasing but it really need some speed as it may take few years to match other review queues.
I have some ...
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What can be done about the massive Close Votes queue on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
There are (at the time of writing this; see edits at bottom of post) 54.2k questions with close votes on the review page on Stack Overflow. Unlike the other review tasks, which all usually return to 0 ...
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Why do people vote to close a programming question on Stack Overflow as off-topic? [duplicate]
I clearly have a programming question, yet people vote to close my question as off-topic. Why?
Is Stack Overflow not a programming Q&A site?
Someone voted to close my question.
The SO help clearly ...
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Why are there so many close votes to review and so few of the others? [duplicate]
In the SO Review page https://stackoverflow.com/review, I see the following stats for questions awaiting review:
Close votes: 51.8k (and rising)
Suggested edits: 10 (fluctuates, but rarely goes ...
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How to make close-review queue less thankless [closed]
It's been hovering around 50k for months now. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume these questions are well-prioritized so that the totally irrelevant-to-close questions according to some ...
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Software recommendation question
In this question the user ask about what tools can solve a specific problem.
The possible answer for such a question leads usually to a list.
Many people believe that such a question is not a good ...
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Do we have a problem with follow-through on close votes? [closed]
I've been looking at the review queues lately, and something has caught my eye. The close vote queue just keeps growing. It hit 50k just a little ago, and is well on its way to 51. I've never actually ...
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New close vote count by the closing link [duplicate]
A new feature introduced today is that not only a count is displayed by the close link, but also the total number of votes needed to complete the action (5 for closing).
First of all, there seems to ...
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Why are there always flamewars over questions where many people know the answer? [closed]
I already came across questions to which many people "knew" the answer. Usually it gets many upvotes and downvotes, many answers and even more comments. It gets voted to be closed and re-opened again. ...
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Close votes daily limit increase [duplicate]
Due to large number of reviews waiting do be done - at the time about 46,000 - did you consider - maybe temporary increase daily close votes limit from 40 to higher number ?
I know there is limit ...
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