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When should a question that otherwise belongs on another site be simply closed and not migrated?
This question was closed as off topic, but was not migrated. I (incorrectly) decided to vote to close and migrate to Stack Overflow, but the question was not migrated for quality reasons.
I ...
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“Question needs 0 votes to close”, but I didn't cast a close vote
I just flagged this question as off-topic in /review, and got the popup
This question still needs 0 vote(s) from other users to close
I don't have 3000 rep; I didn't vote to close, just flagged ...
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Should a bounty prevent a question from being closed
This question should be closed as not constructive or too localized. Yet it cant be voted closed, since it has an active bounty.
Shouldnt close votes take priority?
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what is the purpose of down-voting a question?
I understand the reason for up-voting a question. It is a good question and the results are likely to help someone in the future.
But what is the purpose of down-voting? If the question is bad, ...
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Should you be able to close as duplicate from another SE site?
see the following link on SU
MS Outlook 2010 - Force Automatic Replies to all Email Senders
I can see the question and answer exist approptiately in both SU and SF sites. It could be an MS Exchange ...
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Vote to Close the Vote to Close chat room
With the new Review System, questions are getting closed/reopened/improved more rapidly then before. Looking at the room activity, it's been 43 days since something was asked in there, other then one ...
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Another chameleon question
This question: Is there a tool which can resume video conversion? seems to be about… well, video conversion, but as the most-upvoted answer indicates, user’s right p0rblem lies everywhere. What should ...
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Should the Vote to Close option be altered?
This question and my comment there made me think, and it seems to me that to completely avoid any sense of a "pack mentality" that could be applied to when votes are cast to close a question, the ...
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Vote to close dialog does not handle links to answers
These URLs work in a vote to close » duplicate dialog:
http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for
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Changing the impact of flag weight [closed]
Why isn't flag weight tied to voting to close/reopen/delete/undelete votes?
It would seem logical that someone that who has a high flag weight should be able to cast these votes, as in many cases it ...
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Why is there no badge for voting to close questions?
Out of curiosity, why is there no badge for voting to close questions? There seem to be badges (bronze at least) for using every other feature on the site pretty much, and I think it would be nice to ...
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What can I do with old questions that I think should be closed?
Since I have started to use the review page, I have looked at many old questions. Some of them I believe should be closed (like What is the fastest BitTorrent client? for example). While I can cast ...
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Flag weight doesn't grow up any more after crossing 3000 reputation [closed]
I've now got 3k reputation, acquiring the "cast close and reopen questions" privilege.
Since then, I don't know if any of my flags to close questions have been marked valid or not as my flag weight ...
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How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?
My rep is going to reach 3,000 soon (2,987 at the time of this post), so I should be able to vote to close soon. How should my flagging habits change when I gain this ability? What should I do when ...
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View close votes
Is there a way to view a list of all the close votes that I have cast (similar to viewing the flags that I have sent)?
Its not really that important, but I was just curious if there was a way.
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Apple.SE as off-topic migration path
It might be a good idea to have Apple.SE as selectable question destination when voting to close.
We get enough off-topic questions on iphone and related tags (one topic every two days or so). It ...
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Revoking flags and close votes
I'd like to be able to revoke my own flags and close/reopen votes.
Since it can take quite a while for question votes to accumulate, the questions often change in the meantime. The same applies to ...
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How do I undo my vote to close?
Maybe it's just me but on countless occasions I've wrongly voted to close after misreading the question (oops). Either that, or the OP has modified their question following a comment to bring it in ...
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Suggestion for new Vote to Close Reason: Shopping recommendation
Now, a good number of questions I get around to closing are obvious shopping questions, and tend to be closed off topic when I do.
Considering shopping questions are a definite no-no, could we have ...
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Is it all right to use the flag option to…?
Is it all right to use the flag option to bring to attention an question that may need to be voted to close because it is off-topic.
Example: What is the best stock market website ??
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What to do about torrents?
With, what appears to me, an outbreak of questions regarding torrents, torrent downloads, and torrent download optimization I am wondering what we should do with these sort of questions. Most torrent ...
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Please show close votes state for questioner
I would like to see how many close/reopen votes my question currently has (so I can decide how much effort I'm going to put into it, how many people think the same as the closers, etc...).
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Quick way to find questions nominated for closing?
Is there a fast way for someone with 3k+ rep to find questions nominated for closing?
If there's not, can we make one? I think this would prevent a lot of redundant effort, i.e. 5 different highish ...
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See possible duplicates in question
When one opens a question and starts typing a title, a list of possible duplicate questions is shown as illustrated below.
I assume that this isn't used often since some quite obvious duplicates ...
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Why is the “Spam” close reason for questions missing on SU?
I just came across a question on Super User I would have liked to close as spam. But looking at the resons for a close vote ...
... I noticed that "spam" was missing from that list. Along with ...
