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What should be featured in our list of off-topic close reasons?

General outline / category list of things we could / should have: Shopping questions Localized troubleshooting questions (by contrast, canonical troubleshooting questions should not be closed) Questi …
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what is the purpose of down-voting a question?

Questions like this are: IN FAVOR of not closing it: Specific Answerable Topical Shows some cursory research, or at least tells me what they've tried (in this case, very little) Shows specific comm …
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When should a question that otherwise belongs on another site be simply closed and not migra...

Any set of guidelines is going to be inherently subjective, but here are mine: Look at the OP's rep / other questions on the site that you are thinking of migrating it to. If they have a lot of clos …
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Huge knowledge gap, Should these be closed as they encourage long comment chains?

Post an answer that would be significantly outside the original answer (A guide with many additional answers and steps. I've done this a few times and it's been fairly well-received, so I d …
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