Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Why is the question about suddent large traffic on a GitHub repo off-topic?
Question on question: What would be the reasons for a GitHub repo suddenly get cloned by a huge amount of times in a short period of time?
The question is closed as off-topic. From What topics can I ...
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How to reword to make it on topic?
This question got closed for being "off topic". The Help Center specifically says "security tools" are in scope. I don't understand why asking about how to use a tool is out of ...
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Question closed for being off-topic
My question was closed for being off topic. The reason stated by the moderator was that "This is not a security issue. This is pure TCP/IP".
I feel it is reasonable to consider my question ...
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Is this bordering on "helping you break the security of a system"?
This high-traffic question from two days ago, many comments and answers:
How could a public DNS server return bad results?
The question comes in two parts:
How is the ISP achieving this? Are ...
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Recent surge in low quality Kali-questions / canonical answer?
Given that there are recently popping up a lot of questions exhibiting poor understanding of unix basics that seem to be about Kali Linux and then are about reading error messages of any arbitrary ...
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Is not having an answer publicly available a good reason to close a question?
I asked this question, which was put [on hold] with the following comment:
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because only the internal dev teams of these products can speak to their ...
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Can we use information gathering questions
I previously posted a question about lessons that could be learned from recent cyber attacks, the question was very popular and garnered a good discussion on the issues and preventative measures used ...
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Where should this question regarding the viability of new TLDs go?
I asked a question that was closed, migrated, then rejected.
Suppose I were to purchase a new domain of .financial, hence my
email would be [email protected].
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A question I asked that was closed as speculative / "primarily opinion based" has since definitely become non-speculative. What should I do?
In March of this year, Canonical and Microsoft announced that the then-next update to Windows 10 (the one we now know as the "Anniversary Edition" that dropped in July) would contain Ubuntu on Windows,...
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How is a question about dealing with a possibly compromised router or modem an "exact duplicate" of a question about a compromised server?
The closing of this question perplexes me. I understand that the question it is supposedly a duplicate of--How do I deal with a compromised server? --is basically the canonical question on here about ...
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What are product recommendations and should they sometimes be allowed?
One close reason is:
Questions seeking product recommendations are off-topic as they become obsolete quickly. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve.
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Do we close questions as duplicates based on answers?
I saw a new question yesterday which was closed as duplicate, because there is another similar but different question where one answer also answers the new question. The relevant part of the answer is ...
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Why it is opinion based to ask for possible pitfalls of an concept?
I would like to know whats the evidence for this gotten closed?
Should we fear spammbots that write constructive and helpful posts?
I completly describe the concept which is intended to protect ...
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What is wrong with this legal question? Are legal questions on topic at all?
The question "Can I hack my website?" got closed with this close reason:
This question does not appear to be about Information security within the scope defined in the help center.
However the ...
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Please help me improve a question which had mixed reviewer reactions
I'd like to learn how to proceed in a case where there is disagreement between reviewers about the quality of a question and where it's not clear (at least to me) how I could improve the post further.
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