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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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What to do with debug questions now?

This thread: Debug this code for me questions suggests to close as "too localized", but that is not available any more. So, what to do with users posting one question after another about the same piec …
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Bug when clicking through closing options

Steps to reproduce: Go to Close Votes review page. Click "Close" -> "off-topic because..." Choose "Other", change your mind, choose something else: now "Vote To Close" button is inactive until you e …
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Over eager downvotes and close votes

I feel like people are treating closing and downvoting as two things coming together (even throughout previous answers here, which I'm surprised with). They are not. Closing gives an opportunity to im …
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4 votes
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Questions asking for some example code or algorithm

What is the proper course of action for questions asking for an example code or algorithm? I've come across a few of those in recent weeks, i.e., this one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2002553 …
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Good duplicate questions archive

I know, I'm not the first to talk about this idea, but I haven't found anything useful which is less than a couple of years old... It seems that vast majority of questions which need to be closed sho …
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Old questions closing guidelines [duplicate]

Recently I get a lot of 2-year or older posts in Close Votes review queue. We all saw those legacy questions which would be closed in 10 seconds and get downvotes nowadays (primarily opinion-based or …
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