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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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We have bad question closing habits
Many Stack Exchange websites including SU are plagued with ill-informed close-votes. I believe one solution to mitigate this problem is having a “Vote not to close” option to counter the “Vote to ...
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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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We have bad question closing habits
Wikipedia has a AfD section that is used to decide whether to delete an article, it is functionally similar to close votes here. However, they have:
AfD is not a Vote, reasons to Keep and Delete must ...
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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 ...
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Question considered "opinion based" inquiring about objective status of software project
Whether people or an organisation are contributing or maintaining a thing is a problem with those people or that organisation.
We can only guess what those people are thinking, whether they believe it ...
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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, for ...
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Question closed as unclear but an answer was already posted
I was on the fence with this one.
My main problem is that there is almost no real actionable detail in the question such as what they tried, where they were stuck, or why they think it should be ...
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We have bad question closing habits
Based on what I have seeing so far, I can't give an opinion about the closing habits in SU, but ...
Closing questions doesn't interfere with providing help and serve people.
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