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How can we recommend new question close flags? For example: "can't answer because didn't provide code" on Stack Overflow [closed]
I've been contributing a bit lately to Stack Overflow and I have noticed an extremely common trend for new users to post questions explaining their problem, but not providing any code.
Things like:
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Providing a "flag-to-queue" option for moderators [duplicate]
Currently, posts deemed by someone in the community to be in need of being closed or reopened are sent to the close/reopen review queues by clicking a link below the post. However, if a moderator ...
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Providing additional moderation information on main page?
This request I guess is more from a moderator standpoint. IMO should probably be viewable only by those who can actually do something about it.
Currently we can see the number of votes, answers and ...
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Allow to flag a question for closure without casting a vote if I'm out of close votes
This is not a duplicate of I'm out of close votes. Can I use moderator flags instead? because that is a support question asking if one can use moderator attention flags to indicate that questions ...
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Auto flag bounties on questions with pending close votes
As described in Close votes shouldn't expire on bountied questions a vote for closure is in effect a vote for deletion some day down the road.
The issue is that when there is already a close vote ...
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Should the close vote privilege be dependent on flagging?
I think that the awarding of the close & reopen privileges should be dependent on the number of helpful close flags and the %declined flags. The reason:
Someone with a hundred helpful (close) ...
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Change Close Vote to Mod Flag - Bad Questions with Open Bounty
When you first join an SE site, you have the ability to flag a bad question for all of the normal "close vote" reasons. This is handled as a moderator flag. However, once you have close vote ...
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Allow me to flag to close even if I already used my close vote
When a question I voted to close gets reopened, I cannot vote to close it again, because everybody can vote to close a given question successfully only once. I understand this as it avoids close wars ...
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Alternative approach to migration [duplicate]
Before I make this suggestion, I'm going to lay out some guidelines for what should and should not be migrated between sites. The method for migration I'm about to suggest only makes sense if we can ...
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Cannot see which questions have been flagged on iOS app
When I have been browsing questions on the Stack Exchange app, I cannot see which posts have been put on hold/migrated, I then end up flagging these posts when in actual fact they have already been ...
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Would like to withdraw my flag for closure in favor of vote to close [duplicate]
About a month ago, when I had less than 3k rep (on stackoverflow) I flagged this question as a duplicate, a copy and paste of a previous one by the same author. The flag hasn't been deal with (no ...
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Don't submit flag or close vote immediately on tapping reason in iOS app
The current process for flagging or voting to close in the iOS app is very susceptible to fat-fingering. A list is presented, and as soon as you tap an item from that list, that's accepted as your ...
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If I flag a question, then get close vote privileges, I should be allowed to vote to close it [duplicate]
I've just passed the threshold for being able to vote to close on another SE site. Some of the questions I flagged prior to having this privilege are still in the review queue because not enough votes ...
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Please add confirmation before placing flag/close vote from the Android App
I have selected the wrong close reason on the Android app a few times already. You know how easy it is to tap on the wrong place of a touch screen.
What I request here is to slightly change the ...
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Don't let flag-to-close flags linger for months in flag purgatory
Here is the close queue:
Here is an active flag I have:
I currently have 5 flags pending in the close queue. Some, like this one, are months old. This doesn't feel right and may discourage ...
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