Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
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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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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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Closing questions as "Needs details or clarity" when the required details are not communicated to the asker
In a problem related to @Hauke Lagings question on closing policy, what to do with questions voted for closing as "Needs details or clarity" when none of the reviewers seemed to have ...
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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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Lots of ancient questions being VTCd
In reviewing the queue I've noticed a lot of questions from 4 or 5 years ago being VTC'd "unclear". The odd thing about these is that a number of them have an accepted answer so clearly(!) they're ...
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Did I vote close this question?
Cannot open file'*' no such file or directory
I don't have any recollection of voting to close as not reproducible issue.
Is it because someone use my comment as a vote close reason ?
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Over zealous desire to close questions
I have found the main forum an excellent resource for concise, good quality questions and answers, so I do understand the philosophy to remove woolly, off-topic or old (stale) questions.
But when I ...
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When voting close should the comment be considered
When in the vote close queue, I never read comments.
But today, on this peculiar question:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/close/246445
I found out that I should have because without comment the ...
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Trivial edits to remove posts from the close queue?
Background:
Recently when reviewing in the close vote queue, I came across a post that I was pretty sure I had seen some weeks prior. So after a bit of investigation I determined that I had in fact ...
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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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What to do with answers to off-topic questions?
I just found this question in the first posts review queue and voted to close it (see my comment to it) because I cannot see how U&L would benefit from it. Next, I found one of the answers in the ...
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Closing votes on a historic question about Plan 9
I just scored 4 close votes on my question regarding the reason behind using the "snarf" word instead of "copy" in Plan 9 applications (link).
I thought that questions about history (there are 234 ...
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Is the "On hold" message sometimes wrong?
Looking at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/307879/does-linux-operating-systems-not-run-as-hot-as-windows-10 I see the question has been marked as "put on hold as unclear what you're asking by ...
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When a computing problem becomes moot what should you do about the question?
Suppose you ask a question, say on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange, but after asking it, the question becomes irrelevant. Say for example you ask if you can fix network protocol(s) which Windows says ...
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Is an asker alerted when his/her question is nominated for close?
This question, for example, is currently being reviewed for close. Its chances are good, I think, in that it has already received 2 leave open votes, but there doesn't appear to be any clear-cut ...
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