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Can we educate users to stop adding "Belongs on xyz.SE!" comments without further explanation?
I would suggest that these kinds of comments should always be phrased like the following:
Your question is off-topic here, but on-topic for xyz.SE. However, please do not re-post on the other site, y …
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Anti-virus question, reasons vs opinion
Could we have fixed this question […] encouraging the user to edit or rephrase the question himself?
This is mentioned in the banner below:
Also, commenters have been very verbose, including Darth …
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Editing others' questions: etiquette issue with partially off-topic questions?
I just did what you proposed at the time you were writing this.
Now, should I just edit the post, killing the second part and changing the meaning, or flag the question or just comment and ask the …
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Request to reopen question 581643 please
If you prefer, it could be closed as being not constructive, as we don't know what Microsoft is using and there's no objective definition of what "professionally looking" is.
It's a safe bet to say t …
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How are these questions off topic?
https://superuser.com/questions/47150/does-anyone-use-elephantdrive-online-backup-for-personal-use
This is simply polling for opinion. This is not a question that has a correct answer, but one that …
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'Preserve' State for keep real bad questions as reference
the system lacks a final bad-question-keep-for-reference state
This is by design. Bad questions are only kept for longer if the answers are (or have been) somewhat useful. But even then, at some poi …
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Off topic close reasons – do we need specific points for Stack Overflow or Web Apps?
This is now live. Use this option when…
a question is clearly out of scope (e.g. about a web app), and
it is too bad to be migrated to another site, or there is no target site for this question
Be …
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Flag obsolete question for closing
Simply choose Other… and just type in what you'd like us to do.
We don't have such a close reason because it'd be used very rarely.
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Should we split up the off-topic "shopping" closing reason?
Since the pre-release / beta software option wasn't used a lot, we activated two new reasons to replace the previously combined software / hardware recommendation option:
Questions seeking for hardw …
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