Timeline for We have bad question closing habits
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 13:40 | comment | added | U. Windl | For a similar discussion about superuser.com/q/1818353/964771 I was lead to this question. I agree: Specifically SU has a tendency to close valid questions, while other SE sites keep questions that should clearly be closed. Somehow it leaves a feeling like hearing "Go away, leave us alone!" | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 7:27 | comment | added | Daniel B | @TylerH But does the “leave open” action actually do anything? Isn’t that more of a “do nothing” action, while the alternative is to also cast a close vote? In the end, it does nothing to not close a question, it at best delays closing. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 1:54 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @gronostaj Agreed. human labeling. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 1:52 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @TylerH no idea where your "I'm smarter than the people I disagree with, let me win" comes from. Close votes and reopen votes should be handled the same way to be fair, but currently they are not. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 15:50 | comment | added | TylerH | @WoJ Voting a post up or down is not introducing a state change to it. Closing or reopening a question is introducing a state change, and thus needs to be processed a different way. There is already a way to say something under review for closure should stay open, the "leave open" review action. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 14:47 | comment | added | WoJ | @TylerH: no, I find it to be a great idea. The same way as a voting button is "up" or "down", the fact that someone stated "it should be closed" needs to have a "it should stay open". None is right on their own and since there is "pseudo-democracy" on this site both sides should have a voice. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 13:25 | comment | added | TylerH | This is a bad idea and an even worse justification for it; it's basically "I'm smarter than the people I disagree with, let me win". If you want to have unilateral power over whether questions should be closed or opened before they go through the well-established processes, run for moderator. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 5:53 | comment | added | gronostaj | Thanks for the stats link. Unfortunately it's hard to say how many of these questions actually should stay closed. And I can't think of a practical and objective way of checking this. | |
| Aug 4, 2022 at 5:02 | history | answered | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |