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How to encourage 'real' responses from review, rather than rubber-stamp comments
We've now all seen the message
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're ...
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User consent is required before closing the question [duplicate]
I came across an article and tried to answer the question, but unfortunately, it was closed, so that I couldn't answer it.
It isn't easy to decide whether the question should be closed or not, so it ...
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How can we prevent or discourage people from closing questions about which they know little or nothing? [duplicate]
There is not a week that goes by that I do not see a question that was closed for "This question needs details or clarity" and yet the question is perfectly clear to me. My hypothesis is ...
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Tweak reopen votes requirement
I was reading a post made a year ago concerning reopen votes being automated.
The proposed solution looks unwieldy at best. But it did make me wonder if a simpler solution could be utilised for ...
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Require close voters to continually interact with questions they voted to close [closed]
People who vote to close a question should be responsible for being active with the question poster. Meaning that if you vote to close the ownus is on you, the voter, to see the changes that you have ...
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Rules for closing the question as duplicate [closed]
I have bad experience today on my question that is closed.
I see it was decided by single person? Will that be previously by group of people vote then close right?
Why there is no time interval to ...
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Is it really a good idea to delete questions or close them before they're answered? [duplicate]
I know people sometimes write unclear questions. I think some of them can never figure out how to make their question clearer. I think for some of them, the only way they're ever going to learn is if ...
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Does Stack Exchange need do-not-close votes? [duplicate]
I've come across different questions at different networks that get closed, the reopened, then closed again...
It's often about questions that represent an edge-case for what's on/off-topic on the ...
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I marked my question as duplicate but it was put on hold as too broad [duplicate]
I asked a question on StackOverflow and after some time I found a duplicate of my own question. I thought it would be fair to mark my own question as a duplicate and I did. However, my question was ...
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Is it worth having an "other" reason to close a question? [duplicate]
I was looking through the close votes on Electronics.SE, and saw a lot of unclear and too broad reasons, including one that I thought was perfectly clear, and so I answered and voted to leave open.
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Why can't moderators add "partial dupes" to the "list of dupes"? [duplicate]
A question may sometime be a combination of dupes of multiple other questions. If that happens, it should be possible - both before and after the question is closed as a dupe (with a dupehammer or ...
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About moderators' authorities
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This is not a personally stuff. This is an opinion declaration for improving SE.
From help center:
Closing is a democratic voting process where the community identifies questions that ...
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Allow recasting used close votes on reopened questions, but for a different reason
Here's the problem... and I'll admit that I don't have an ideal solution.
A question gets closed as a duplicate of another question.
The question is modified so that it is no longer a duplicate
The ...
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Incorrect user is shown at closed question [duplicate]
There was a duplicate question asked earlier today, so I thought of closing the question, but in the close popup already two other users voted to close as unclear.
Still I went ahead and closed it as ...
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Feature request: Add mandatory field for more precise reason
This was earlier requested on the meta site for LaTeX here at stackexchange, under When flagging for close: Adding a reason. The discussion lead to a suggestion to post the request here.
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