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Should moderators override the community's "reopen" votes? [duplicate]

Currently, moderators can unilaterally close questions that the community voted to reopen, voting repeatedly even, which I've seen happen. If moderators are elected by the community, should they ...
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User consent is required before closing the question [duplicate]

I came across an article and tried to answer the question, but unfortunately, it was closed, so that I couldn't answer it. It isn't easy to decide whether the question should be closed or not, so it ...
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Why does SO allow people to continue answering a question when one is accepted and highly voted up? [duplicate]

Simple question, title says it all. For example I have a few posts where the answers that are accepted are highly voted up by the community, which indicates they are, based on my questions, vastly ...
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Change the official criterion for downvoting to exclude causes for closing

At the moment, it is suggested to users that they should downvote if This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful This is a pretty lax criterion. Also, it overlaps ...
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Is it subjective, or common experience that moderators on stack exchange believe they know better what question you should ask? [closed]

In recent years, I subjectively experience an increase of the following outcome for a stack exchange question: In the comments, some people are quick to claim that the question is duplicate, not ...
highsciguy's user avatar
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1 answer
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How are down and close voting going together?

If I decide to close vote a question as off topic for a specific site, I almost always give it a down vote along. My reasoning is that identified off topic questions aren't useful for that site at all....
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When someone ask how to behave in a situation, do we vote for the general problem or the specific case?

Meta often receives a lot of questions about "How should I behave when ....". Often those questions are just made by user asking how their own specific case should be handled, but many times those ...
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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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Re-casting a close votes and close vote aging

Close votes age as follows: Close votes age away harmlessly after 4 days if the threshold is not reached. Each new close vote resets the timer, and close votes only start expiring if the ...
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How can we discourage downvoting for the wrong reasons?

Very often, on various SE websites, I see new users posting questions that are off-topic. This is a common problem, and I think our communication lines to help these users are usually quite effective. ...
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Avoiding Bandwagon Voting-to-Close

I'm somewhat frustrated at the seemingly bandwagon mentality at Stack Overflow with respect to voting sometimes. I've seen a great number of questions voted closed as off-topic, duplicates, etc. ...
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Reinforcing a Close Vote to Prevent Re-Opening? [duplicate]

It's well known on SO that some questions are essentially impossible to delete despite being a bad fit for the format, because of their sheer age or popularity. Essentially, they will become a part of ...
Glitch Desire's user avatar
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Do you stop getting helpful flags once you can vote to close? [duplicate]

I noticed that once I hit 3,000 rep and could vote to close I seemed to stop getting helpful flags. The behavior is different too. Before I would flag a post for being non-constructive or whatever, ...
Tyler Durden's user avatar
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14 answers
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We need to be a little less hostile

I've noticed a distressing tendency for questions that seem basic or overly short to be immediately closed and downvoted into oblivion. Case in point: How can I tell if a DOM object is out of the ...
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Why can't I vote to delete this question? [duplicate]

This question: Does PDO implements mysqli or mysql [duplicate] According to the FAQ on deletion votes, I should get 25 delete vote for the day (30k rep, 20 extra votes for rep and 5 votes by default)....
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Vote to close own question

Well, I've just done this out of curiosity, but since a user is not allowed to upvote/downvote his questions/answers, is there any specific reason behind allowing him to vote for close his own ...
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100 view requirement for vote expiry should not be based on total views

Currently vote (e.g. to close/reopen) can expire n days after the last vote, provided the question has 100 total views. The 100 total views requirement is intended to avoid votes failing and an issue ...
Flexo - Save the data dump's user avatar
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2 answers
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Questions with many upvotes should not be closable [duplicate]

I see a lot of good, well-writen and constructive questions (that are probably not only good for me) closed, by various reasons which I fail to digest, so I propose the idea that questions with n ...
Camilo Martin's user avatar
26 votes
2 answers
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Increasing Flag Weight when you have Voting Privileges? [closed]

How does one increase one's flag weight if one has gotten over 3,000 points and has earned the privilege to vote? I assume it's bad etiquette to still be flagging instead of using the voting ...
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