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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.
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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 in the limi …
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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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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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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 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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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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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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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
To vote-to-close, we should have enough expertise in the areas being discussion to be absolutely sure that the question can't be answered with the given information. …
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Is the format bar code sample/block option inefficient
If anyone wants to cut down on SE storage, just edit a few of my posts to remove the wordiness ;-) ...
the code sample/block option from the format bar using what was referred to as "antiquidated".
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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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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date i...
Thanks to @DavidPostill and @KamilMaciorowski for the feedback in the comments.
I've reverted from Option #3 to #2 based on their advice. For the particular answer I mentioned above, I've:
Rolled-ba …
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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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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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Why is this question "opinion-based"?
That just leads to "discussion", rather than clear-cut, objective answers. … But that doesn't mean that we can turn Super User into that discussion board.
Could the question be edited to make it worth reopening? …
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Asking for 2nd opinion on moderator-closed question
I am not complaining. Moderator is entitled for this decision.
Fair enough. You are "disagreeing" with the decision, but you are doing so in the proper manner. You've brought it here to Meta and m …
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