Questions tagged [closed-questions]
Anything about questions that were closed by community or a moderator
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My question was closed as "opinion-based" despite not being opinion-based
My question Why do SSDs tend to fail much more suddenly than HDDs? was closed by a mod as "opinion-based", despite being in no way opinion-based. It asks for factual reasons why SSDs tend ...
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New poly-word closure reasons need punctuation
I applaud the new reasons for closing a question.
But recently I voted to close this question (Reason for Unexpected Shutdown …), and then I went to look at it, and it looked something like this:
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{merged} or {closed} markers for merged questions
I had to use {x} in the title, because I'm not allowed to use [x] (especially not [closed]):
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
title can't include the closed marker.
title contains ...
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Was this question closed because a new user made an (easily correctable) Markdown formatting mistake and (correctable, ESL) grammar?
WSL2 duplicated terminal was Mod-closed as "Needs clarity or details", but even as originally written it was (again) quite understandable to me. It definitely had two problems:
The new ...
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Could someone review my post regarding product data?
I have a question about my Super User post: How does the WD_BLACK SN770 2TB connected to PCI 3.0 NVMe 1.3 compare to the Samsung EVO 970 Plus 2TB SSD? Heat, power at idle, speed at 80% full?
I'm not ...
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Closure on CPU bottleneck, "opinion-based"
Why was this question closed as opinion-based, but not this? Latter is less focused and more open to speculation, like many other performance-tagged questions I've seen. Former should be answerable ...
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What's unclear about this question on how to configure Acrobat so that it runs an Acrobat Javascript script whenever a PDF is opened?
I asked the question:
I wrote an Acrobat Javascript script. How can I configure Acrobat so that it runs a Acrobat Javascript script whenever a PDF is opened in Acrobat?
It was closed as "needs ...
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Not sure why closed as "opinion based"
I have a question about my Super User post: ACPI thermal zone driver in Windows 10. Not always available
My post has factual information we have found and possibility of factual answers to the ...
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Asking detailed and varient of an old(9 years) closed question
I have come across a problem which was already asked here in a very general way in 2010. That question was closed citing as overly broad, vague, ambiguous etc. Now, I have tried many things on this ...
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Why was this access question closed as off topic, and what community would be better suited for it?
I posted this here earlier, but it was closed as off-topic. I figured since it was access related, which is software related, this was the best fit community. If that is not the case, could someone ...
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How to answer a question that was migrated away, then closed and migrated back?
In this question: my php script does not work, the answer was migrated away correctly to Stack Overflow.
Stack Overflow closed the question being unclear as I was adding my answer and that action ...
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Question put on hold as too broad
I don't want to be that guy who complains about a rightful disciplinary action against him. But I really don't know what I did wrong here. I asked a question about a problem I'm currently encountering ...
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Questions put on hold and then deleted tell the user to edit the question or comment, neither of which is possible
Questions put on hold and then deleted tell the user to edit the question or comment, neither of which is possible.
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Why was this question on parsing a pdf closed?
re: https://superuser.com/questions/822541/breaking-articles-into-sentences-for-easy-reading about breaking a pdf into sentences
The original wording of the question included the option for a ...
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Make question about Java MaxHeapSize more focused
This question about Java MaxHeapSize was closed because it needs to be more focused. How can it be made more focused?
"Needs more focus" is defined here as "has many valid answers (but no way to ...
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I'd like to know why my question was closed
I posted a question detailing my problems with Windows 8's File History. I use it for backups and I have a couple of things I'd like it to do, but it fell short. With certain specific needs in mind, I ...
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Where does this question belong?
I asked a question about Whatsapp. It wasn't about the mobile version. It's a general question that is relevant to the desktop app as well as the browser version or the mobile app.
But someone thought ...
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Why is my firewall question off-topic?
Question is Block TCP/UDP high-latency connections
I thought it clearly fits "personal and home computer networking" category, as listed in Help Center.
Other questions on intersection of gaming and ...
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Why did one mod close this question on removing the password on several RAR files at once as a duplicate?
The question How can I remove the password on several RAR files at once? was closed by 1 mod as a duplicate of Can I remove a RAR file's (known) password without recompressing the archive?. Why?
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