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We have no plans to change this on sites that don't wish us to.
– Catija
Commented May 4, 2021 at 2:31
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FWIW, you might find this interesting: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/359735/2020-a-year-in-closing (History is 38% for questions asked in 2020). That said, this isn't really about getting more questions closed; that may be an outcome on some sites, but at the scale of a site like History I doubt there are so many questions being flagged or voted on that moderators and trusted users can't already close all that they would like to (and thus, reducing the threshold would have little or no effect on volume).
– Shog9
Commented May 4, 2021 at 3:26
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Closing a question isn't the end of the world. Many questions can be improved enough to warrant reopening, but this takes some effort (either from OP or the community). Edits can still come in after closure, successful edits even automatically put the question into the reopen queue.
– Mast
Commented May 4, 2021 at 3:50
@Catija Good to hear there's flexibility there. I suspect most History SE folk are happy with things as they are (but I could be wrong).
– Lars Bosteen
Commented May 4, 2021 at 7:00
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@Mast True, but on History (at least, and as has been noted by quite a few users on our site) it's difficult to get questions reopened.
– Lars Bosteen
Commented May 4, 2021 at 7:07
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@LarsBosteen maybe less so if it only takes 3 people to reopen?
– Martin Smith
Commented May 4, 2021 at 11:56
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@Mast Only the first edit after closure puts it into the reopen queue. It's a big and well-known problem in the system that more effectively prevents OP edits from getting questions reopened than anything else.
– TylerH
Commented May 4, 2021 at 16:08
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Definitely true for SE History. It's a bit disheartening to see how many questions get closed, especially on new users. Some certainly deserve it, some closures however are much more debatable and lowering the limit will make it worse.
– Italian Philosophers 4 Monica
Commented May 6, 2021 at 18:19
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One thing I've noted on History SE is that there are five (or so) very active non-moderator members that VTC questions are a "group," and questions that go against their (collective) taste tend to get closed.
– Tom Au
Commented May 9, 2021 at 4:37
@TomAu True. It would be nice to see more members using their voting rights to make the process more representative of the site in general.
– Lars Bosteen
Commented May 9, 2021 at 5:04
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The high closure rate on history is a good thing. A lot lf low quality input arrives, and it needs to be removed, or, the questions improved and then reopened. The high noise to signal ratio is why I don't visit as often as I used to.
– KorvinStarmast
Commented May 12, 2021 at 12:05

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