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Makyen
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Please return to using the titles "Too broad" and "Unclear"

Please change the Modal Titles:

  • "Needs more focus" back to "Too broad" and
  • "Needs details or clarity" back to "Unclear".

The modal titles are the identifiers on which people, particularly people voting/flagging for closure, hang the concepts behind the close reasons. The titles should be very short and clearly distinct. The current model titles for these two close reasons are neither of those things and were changed away from modal titles which were. These modal titles are primarily for people interacting with the close vote/flag modal, not the author of the post. The author of the post has substantially more detailed text presented to them.

The current Modal Titles for these are too similar and introduce substantial confusion. This confusion has been a consistent and continuous problem that has plagued both long time users and new users since the change away from "Too broad" and "Unclear" a couple of years ago. After the change in these titles happened, I quickly lost count of the number of times I've seen people ask "What is the difference between 'Needs more focus' and 'Needs details or clarity'?". I still routinely see that asked, usually with quite a bit of frustration, by new users, users new to flagging/closing for closure, and long time users who haven't been actively voting/flagging for closure.

I'm not saying change the descriptions, just the Modal Titles. Any suggestions I have for other wording changes, if I have any, will be in other answer(s).

Makyen
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