Timeline for Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites
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| May 12, 2021 at 12:05 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | 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. | |
| May 9, 2021 at 5:04 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | @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. | |
| May 9, 2021 at 4:37 | comment | added | Tom Au | 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. | |
| May 6, 2021 at 18:19 | comment | added | Italian Philosophers 4 Monica | 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. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 16:08 | comment | added | TylerH | @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. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 11:56 | comment | added | Martin Smith | @LarsBosteen maybe less so if it only takes 3 people to reopen? | |
| May 4, 2021 at 7:19 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 4, 2021 at 7:07 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | @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. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 7:00 | comment | added | Lars Bosteen | @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). | |
| S May 4, 2021 at 5:18 | history | suggested | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 4, 2021 at 3:50 | comment | added | Mast | 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. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 3:26 | comment | added | Shog9 | 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). | |
| May 4, 2021 at 2:31 | comment | added | Catija | We have no plans to change this on sites that don't wish us to. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 1:59 | history | answered | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |