Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
Voting to Close is the process by which users can vote to close a question. You gain the ability to cast close votes when you reach 3,000 Reputation on graduated sites, and a lesser amount is needed on beta sites.
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Display vote closure summary in the close dialog [duplicate]
We recently got the asterisk feature in the Close link of questions, highlighting if we already did a closure vote, which is great.
Yet, the closure dialog could also be improved in my opinion.
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My comment wasn't posted when voting to close as "Other" as the final vote. Is this a bug?
This might be a duplicate of No comment posted when question is closed as off-topic because ... > other
Reference question: Ballistic Coefficients in a Zero G and Perfect Vacuum
I was the final ...
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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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Why was the network-wide close-as-duplicate comment change not announced here?
Since yesterday the automatic comment posted when closing or flagging a post as a duplicate was changed from
Does this answer your question? [question title]
to
This question is similar to: [...
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Questions with active bounties still aren't eligible to appear in the close vote queue, and pending reviews are still invalidated upon bounty starting
Today, the system was changed to allow users to vote to close or reopen questions with active bounties. However, it looks like a detail was missed when making this change.
For a long time, questions ...
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Possible to vote to close questions with active bounties
Over on RPG, I was able to close vote this question after it had a bounty posted:
As you can see, it currently has two close votes. And I did some testing right here on meta (shout out to Journeyman ...
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Penalties for continuously closing questions for a bad reason?
It is extremely common in my experience to see a question that is closed for a reason that is clearly incorrect. It takes an eternity for the question to be unclosed through the appeal process.
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How to easily access your "saved for later"/duplicates list when voting duplicates
It would be very useful, when voting on a question as duplicate, if one could easily access the "Saved for later" list (or whatever list one uses), since that's where I keep the commonly ...
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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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Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means that you can't then vote to close the reopened question? [duplicate]
I found a strange bug the other day.
There was a poorly formatted/asked question, on a site1 (that I am not a moderator of), that I voted to close. It was closed eventually with another two votes (...
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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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