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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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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear

Some thoughts/recommendations on voting-to-close for "Needs details or clarity": Does the perceived lack of clarity in the question lower Super User's quality as a question-and-answer site in general …
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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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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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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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Please review the deletion of my answer of the post mentioned here

Thanks for bringing this here to Meta. This is absolutely the right course of escalation. Sometimes the community is going to agree with you, and other times it won't, but you've made a good argumen …
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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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