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Anything about questions that were closed by community or a moderator

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Why are mod-close rates so much higher for Super User than for other similar SE sites?

Why are the mod-close rates here on Super User so much higher than on other similar Stack Exchange communities? For comparison, I pulled the questions for the last (roughly) 11 days to analyze close-v …
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Why is this question "opinion-based"?

So that you understand my perspective, let me start by telling you that I personally prefer that we try to err on the side of leaving borderline questions open. Two of my most recent Meta posts, here …
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Question closed as unclear but an answer was already posted

Okay, I did see you post this earlier, but Apologies - I only read it closely after you mentioned it in relation to my other Meta question here on the "Needs clarity or details" topic. I had scanned @ …
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Question closed as unclear but an answer was already posted

it won't be reachable from search engines. Separate topic, so a separate answer. Besides, my other answer is (as usual) way too long. Closed questions are indexed. I don't they think should be, fo …
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"How to obtain a Laptop without hidden surprises" - suggestions improving the question

Community Bot bumped this one today since there is no answer with a positive score or that is accepted. So here goes ... There might, in this case, be three possible reasons that your question could …
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Why was this Nushell question closed?

Again, can we stop closing (especially Mod-closing) perfectly reasonable, understandable questions? (See my previous post on this topic) how to get a list of keys from a record? was closed about 5 se …
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Why is this simple, straightforward question on a standard Windows feature closed as "Needs ...

Once again, I find myself confused on why a question was closed as "Unclear/Needs Details": Why are there empty files in %localappdata%\Microsoft\WindowsApps? What is unclear about that question? I …
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Why is this simple, straightforward question on a standard Windows feature closed as "Needs ...

The reason given in the comments for closing was that the OP didn't list any files in the directory, which I maintain was not necessary information for answering the question. Without examples of fil …
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Why was this Nushell question closed?

From the comments, @DavidPostill reopened the question. The reason given for it being "unclear" was that there was no information on where the "record" referenced in the question came from (e.g. a fl …
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Clarification regarding Question Closure as Off Topic

Since the question was not about any code written while using dnSpy, and pertained to the results produced by dnSpy during normal use, I figured it belonged on SuperUser instead of StackOverflow. I' …
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We have bad question closing habits

Closing questions is easy, reopening them is not.... Once a question is closed, it's often doomed to stay closed. Strongly agree. And this presents an additional approach for those of us who curate …
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Does having the same answer as another question automatically make a question a duplicate?

I'm thoroughly confused regarding the the closing of: How to fix wsl2 not opening graphical apps? by a single gold-badge as a duplicate of: How to skip update to Windows 11 on Windows insider program? …
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Question about Microsoft Outlook behaviour closed on assumption that I should contact Microsoft

Based on what's been presented, I agree with you, and you've taken the right approach by escalating to Meta. There's nothing in the rules that I can see that says that issues that can only be resolved …
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Was this question closed because a new user made an (easily correctable) Markdown formatting...

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 user made a s …
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