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To improve first poster experience, can questions have a suspend state before they can be voted for close? [duplicate]
Possible names for this feature:
"Suspended"
"Under review"
I am sure newbies find it quite confronting to ask a question and then have it "closed". A suspend state ...
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Make an OP close vote binding
I know you can close a question as a duplicate when a close vote has been cast but can an OP close vote be binding even when not closed as a duplicate.
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Allow questions to be bountied before two days if they are reviewed as "Leave Open" in the Close Votes queue
The rationale of the 2 days delay before a new question becomes bountiable is that the community requires time to close a not eligible question.
The problem is with it, that the worth of an answer ...
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Show unanswered questions in the duplicate dialog on meta sites and in other cases where choosing an unanswered target is allowed
Most of the time, you don't want to see unanswered questions in the duplicate dialog, since you can't normally close as a duplicate of them. This behavior is intended, at least as it says here:
The ...
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Dupehammer: don't just automatically close a question, give the Wielder a choice of whether to use Great Power [duplicate]
I just voted to close a question as a duplicate. There were previously no other votes to close. After I voted to close, the question was closed. This puzzled me for a second, and then I realized it ...
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New reason to close a question: "Abandoned question"
The issue has been addressed ealier. I'm mainly active on tex.stackexchange. There are some thousands of unanswered questions. I suggested to introduce a new reason for closing questions: an abandoned ...
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Award accepted answer reputation for finding duplicates verified by OP
Consider the following theoretical situation:
New user asks a question:
Why does my program process a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
I see this question, I can:
Vote to close as ...
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Change how questions marked as duplicates by the asker are represented [duplicate]
Situation: when a user self-marks their post as a duplicate, it shows as closed by "community" rather than the original poster.
Problems: this is not clear at all to most users of SE what has ...
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Prevent [featured] questions from being closed
For the third time now in a short period, there's a close/reopen war on a featured MSO question. When it's closed, it disappears from the sidebar.
Seems like a relatively simple check to add so this ...
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Let me handle Close reviews despite running out of Close votes
On MSO the bug I can still review in the CV queue after running out of CVs was reported and subsequently fixed.
I verified in the comments what the consequences of this fix were:
So...to be clear: ...
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Add something about "minimal effort" questions to the "Too broad" close reason
While working on https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/223497/lets-burn-down-the-close-queue, I came across a few questions that were "do my homework for me".
Here is one such example: https://...
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Display the number of pending review tasks created in the past 24 hours for the Stack Overflow close review queue
This is just depressing:
And I don't mean it's depressing that there are that many questions that might need to be closed. There are nearly 6 million open questions on Stack Overflow - if under 2% of ...
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Show close votes on a question from the front page to help reduce the close vote queue
Idea one billion on how to reduce the close vote queue:
Background
Often when I see a question with downvotes I may visit it to see "what’s up" even if I'm not interested in the specific ...
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Provide incentives for reviewing close votes in upcoming Winterbash 2013
Winterbash (hopefully) is coming up! Meaning fun and hats!
We have a lot proposals how to reduce the close vote queue like a close party or free mugs.
Why don't we put most attention to the review ...
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Easy close review queue filtering interface
Short version:
Make a filter selection page the default entry point for the review queues
Show the size of the queues for tags they are likely able to work with - not the whole queue
When all review ...
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