I ran a [couple][1] of [queries][2] and found the following Site | Count of Post Reopened| Count of Closed Posts | Percentage of Closed | | | posts that are re-opend ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SO | 2528 | 69498 | 3.64% P.SE | 281 | 3049 | 9.21% It would seem that since a higher percentage of closed posts got reopened on P.SE than SO I think the opposite is true. You have a better chance of getting a post reopened on a smaller site. If you think Moderator vs Community opening is important here's the break down of the #Of voters per reopen. Using [this query][3] Voter P.SE SO Count ----- ------ ------- 1 169 861 2 18 147 3 17 70 4 9 70 5 68 1380 Total 281 2528 Reopens that involved some moderator intervention was about 75% on P.SE and 45% on SO. If you look at only moderator ones its 60% on p.SE vs 34% on SO. This means that if your going to get your question reopened on P.SE its more likely to include moderation attention than on SO. I don't know if that's important or not. [1]: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/62860/post-count-by-history-type [2]: https://data.stackexchange.com/programmers/query/62860/post-count-by-history-type [3]: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/62866/re-open-voter-count