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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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Should I have flagged this question?
Yes, you should - Its definitely spam, and you should flag it.
Well, if I hadn't deleted the user anyway.
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Should we bother closing old questions?
TL;DR: If I see a question on the front page that I believe is off topic according to current standards, then I vote to close that question.
Sure, perhaps closing a question can in principle be seen ...
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Should we bother closing old questions?
[close a question that is] no longer being on-topic
The Stack Exchange network's policy is clear: you are not allowed to ask off-topic questions. If a question was asked years ago and it was on topic,...
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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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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 ...
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Do not migrate low-quality questions
We actually have statistics over the last 90 days for this overall. The table is as of 2023-02-08 at about 01:00 UTC.
Site
Migrations
Rejection percentage
Webapps
72
29%
Stack Overflow
67
44%
...
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Close votes queue is half-dead, can anything be done about it?
Close Votes has always been problematic. It tends to sit around the 200 mark all the time. It's always been that only a few people ever seem to look at it - possibly because it's a daunting & ...
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Should we bother closing old questions?
If a question is off topic, then it is off topic. It matters not whether it was on topic at the time of asking. So, Yes, do vote to close.
Don’t go out of your way to look for problems, unless they’re ...
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
I don't have much to add, but I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Questions (not spam/obvious duplicates/completely incomprehensible walls of copy/pasted
text) should not be closable unless it ...
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Accepted
Too broad: Should we consider potential answers when deciding?
Whether or not a question is too broad is based on the nature of the required answer.
In very general terms, a question should be a single issue. However, there is a gray area when you get into ...
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Workaround to get rid of all close flags?
For the moment, this is intended behaviour. Well, not so much directly intended, but... it's a pretty small loophole/edge case. For the time being (the past year and beyond :)), I'd say that if you ...
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Add votes to close on main page
There is already a page like this for moderators and users with 10k+ reputation like yourself. That provides an easy place to see all pending close votes, without cluttering the home page with ...
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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.
Users with rep >= ...
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Do not migrate low-quality questions
For those willing to help to reduce the rejection rates, here is a suggestion.
If the question is very brief, mention that the question doesn't look to be a good fit for SU and might closed or ...
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
I think a great deal of this comes from inexperienced reviewers trying to get through their day's allocation of reviews as quickly as possible to bring in the rep points.
I don't understand it, ...
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Is the close vote on my question regarding hugo justified?
Every close vote has a justification, otherwise it would not have been cast. Even "I did not mean to click that" is a justification.
The mass of the Community means that there must be 5 such ...
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