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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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