Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
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What happened to the “too old” message?
I just voted to close this two-year-old question
because I believed that it was off-topic for Super User,
and that it belonged on another site in the Stack Exchange network.
However, I was not given ...
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Circular duplicates aren't handled in an intuitive way
I've been reviewing close votes and found this question (let's call it Question 1):
But its proposed duplicate (Question 2) is already marked as a duplicate of Question 1.
Still, I've been able to ...
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Should questions dealing with admitted cases of PEBKAC be closed as Too Localized?
A recent question triggered this, although I've seen many such cases in the past (as I'm sure have others). In all such cases the OP describes some steps that have been followed and also seemingly ...
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How are "close vote review" questions prioritized? Edit / suggestion
When I am reviewing question that are in review to close I most times open the question to read it fully. Sometimes there is a question that already has votes (1) I do my thing (Leave open, close ...
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“Please do not vote to close spam.” Why?
On a recent piece of spam, a user (Ramhound) stated:
“Please do not vote to close spam.“
Why? Should we just downvote and close as spam? What is the harm in voting to close as off topic? Wouldn’t ...
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When I try to vote to close this question as a duplicate, the site tells me it doesn't have an upvoted answer, but it does. Is this a bug?
See these two questions:
whenever I start my windows laptop, after laptop is opened terminal is automatically opened and inside terminal its written -, and
On windows startup terminal opens ...
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Bug or change for close votes?
We are limited to 20 close votes a day (I guess depending on points).
Normally, when we reach that threshold, a message appears on screen alerting we've done all the voting we're allowed. At this ...
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duplicate link to flag a question as a duplicate
When flagging a question to close, these are the reasons provided:
When selecting "it should be closed for another reason", these are the reasons we then get:
So again a duplicate close reason, a ...
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Dealing with "Request for Work" type questions
First off, this is what our main closure and off topic dialogs look like at present:
SO seems to be tackling "Request for Work" type questions head on as per https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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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
http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-...
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Help us close duplicates of two new Community FAQ questions
I've recently added two questions to the Community FAQ because they were found to have many duplicates:
USB flash drive not working or is appearing as an empty disk drive, Disk Management reports &...
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Is there a problem with the close vote review?
Since the down time at the weekend I have noticed that, when reviewing close votes, the vote to close pop-up does not always refer to the question I am about to vote on.
For instance, just now I ...
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