Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Should we close questions because they only MIGHT be caused by MS Windows?
I've been reviewing more close votes recently. There's been certain trend of a few questions being impossible to review correctly to my mind, and I wanted to ask if there's a community view on how to ...
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Add one additional reason for closing or reword the "opinion based" reason
Facts :
There are a couple of posts, here (on meta), from contributors wording their misunderstanding about the reasons that motivated the closure of their question for the reason that :
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Is historic reasoning by really opinion based?
I'd like to discuss whether or not there is a difference between querying historic design decisions and asking for opinions. The difference is subtle enough... "why should I ..." can often ...
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Why was my post closed as "opinion-based"?
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I thought it's very irrational to abuse the test statement rather than using a case statement for string comparison in a shell script, in viewpoint of portability and performance.
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Why can't I change my close-vote reason or not close-vote anymore after retracting?
I just close-voted this question with reason "Needs details or clarity".
Afterwards, I saw, that this question fits very well, and I would like to change my vote to "Duplicate of ...&...
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Close questions as "Needs details or clarity"
Would we close questions (like https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/343371) if the question itself does lack information but that information has already been made available in the comments?
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Why was this "unclear what you're asking" flag declined?
I flagged this question on February 25 and now I see my flag has been declined. There is no reason visible in the flagging history on my profile.
I raised that flag because the question appears not ...
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460439 put on hold and then closed without explanation?
My recent question, Read address from MSI Capability Structure, was first put on hold as unclear then closed. With respect to the question requirements:
The answer to this specific question ...
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Closing out questions
Why do you allow other users to close questions? Obviously, there is a need by someone to have a question answered. As time goes on, programmers just love to change things up. So, let the questions be ...
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Should we advertise when vote close as non reproductible when it's only a typo
how to link 2 or more images one after the other, having the same dimensions?
This question might get close because it's only a typo, but I found sometime question on the site where the mention of a ...
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Should answers be closed because they are wrong? [duplicate]
I'm trying to become a better reviewer and I am seeing posts in the 'Low Quality Posts' review queue that are flagged for review 'Because of their length and content'.
Sometimes I see answers there ...
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How can I tell if my question has been reviewed and left closed?
I recently asked this question, it was put on hold and asked me to reword the question. I did as such but my question has not reopened. How can I tell if it has already been reviewed and still ...
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In what way my question is actually too broad
Now I am not trying to say my question is not too broad to get it unheld, but I am asking what really what makes it too broad?
Really, the question gives some information a Linux expert would need, ...
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Systematically closing Kali questions
When I asked the reviewer who originally posted the duplicate link why he was duping this question, he referred me to this Meta post: What should we do about Kali Linux questions?. In the top-upvoted ...
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Learning the art of the close-vote review queue
(Forked from Learning the art of the review queue)
For those who often "Skip" in reviewing close-vote items because of lack of confidence / experience / training, is there:
A more detailed guide to ...
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