As of May 31, 2023, we have updated our Code of Conduct.
18 votes

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/...
NotTheDr01ds's user avatar
15 votes

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 ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
8 votes

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 ...
NotTheDr01ds's user avatar
8 votes

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 ...
Lily White's user avatar
8 votes

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% ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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6 votes

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 ...
user13267's user avatar
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2 votes

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 ...
Rubén - People First's user avatar
1 vote

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 >= ...
Rubén - People First's user avatar

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