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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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We have bad question closing habits
Not all of us and not all the time, of course, and I'm sometimes guilty of this too. I don't want to point the finger at anyone - just discuss what I think is a problem and how we can improve. The ...
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Apple.SE as off-topic migration path
Update (2013-09)
Given that this seems to come up every other month or so, here's an update. Current migration stats (2013-09-08), not counting rejected migrations, are as follows:
Web Apps (68) *
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
All too often, I'm seeing close votes (or even closed questions) as "Unclear" on questions that are perfectly understandable to me. It seems to happen roughly once a week, and that's just ...
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Should questions related to problems with beta software/prototype hardware be closed?
I saw that Windows 8.1 Preview No sound on Macbook Pro Retina was closed since it's Preview/Beta code and the issue may very well be fixed by MS or the PC manufacturer in the months to come before ...
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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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What should be featured in our list of off-topic close reasons?
Many people seem to think that question closure means that the question has come the end of its lifecycle here, while it's clearly not so. As part of making things more clear to the folks asking why ...
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Is it all right to use the flag option to...? [duplicate]
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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Do not migrate low-quality questions
I recently noticed a trend where low-quality off-topic questions are migrated away to a more appropriate site. These low-quality questions will then usually be closed on the destination site, causing ...
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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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