@Ramhound Do you usually downvote when you vote to close? Or just some of the time?

@Ramhound Yes, I've heard that too. But I regularly provide feedback, and I have not personally experienced it. Having said that, the posters don't usually use the feedback either.

I don't think worrying overmuch about people's feelings is the way to go. If you want to help them, make specific suggestions for improvement. Voting to close isn't a problem per se, but if people aren't giving feedback about how to improve their posts, and their question is closed, that doesn't seem very friendly.

Ok. I think these policies are SE wide. Would SE even consider modifying them selectively on a per-site basis? Also, there doesn't seem to be a proper mechanism of submitting such proposals to SE that I am aware of. I too (in U&L) have suggested changes that people agreed with (based on upvotes), but then nothing happened. See Add suggestions in user template about mentioning OS/distribution and version for example.

I'm unclear on the purpose of this question. Is the end goal to change SE policy?