Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
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Why close hypothetical question about possible history of Venus?
IMHO, this question should not be closed:
If ancient Venus really were once habitable, what was its atmospheric composition and average surface temperature?
The question asks for a specific, non-...
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Am I using the GOVERNMENT tag incorrectly here?
Comments are a flurry of confusion over what I tried to make a very simple exercise, the question is rapidly gaining VTC.
My intent was to define the political and moral characteristics of my society, ...
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Is it Fair to Encourage People to NOT Answer Questions that Need to be Closed?
Introduction:
WB.SE has a SE mandated format; the community has determined that certain rules need to apply to the asking and answering of questions; the community has in place certain policies & ...
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Testing 3-vote Closures & Reopenings and the Value of Closing Questions
Stack Exchange is testing the use of 3-vote close-voting & reopen-voting. This is an important issue that everyone on this Stack should be aware of.
We ended up with five votes to close based on ...
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Could the mods check this out - did I just cast two consecutive close votes on the same question?
This question, turned up in my feed, I imediatley commented and voted to close as NAW.
A couple of minutes later it turned-up in the close-question review queue. I again voted to close. Both times it (...
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Closed question "This question needs details or clarity" but without explanation of what should be more detailed of clarified
This question has been closed with the reason: "This question needs details or clarity"
I had already replied in the comments some clarifications. It is not clear to me though what further ...
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Is there a community-specific bug report feature?
The VTC reason "This question belongs on another SE site" doesn't work right. Currently, after selecting that option, the only Stack you can choose is WB.meta. I highly doubt that is ...
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A Cascade of Story-Based Closings
The synopsis of what makes a question Too Story Based is as follows:
Asking about plot elements such as the actions of characters, rather than about the world in which your story takes place, is ...
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What reason do I select in order to vote to close poorly written questions?
Every once in a while I will come across a question that is just so poorly written that I don't think it could be saved by providing critiques and giving the asker a chance to fix it. The most common ...
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Is this question really off-topic?
I don't know much about the tags or rules in Meta, since I usually just briefly lurk, so I'd appreciate it if someone can fix the tags to be more appropriate and I apologise if I've broken any rules ...
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What Am I Doing Wrong?
I have asked a dozen questions now and have received negative feedback on most of them, with each question having at least one vote to close, and others getting down votes. I am especially frustrated ...
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How to deal with changing close-vote reasons
I love seeing users edit their on hold/closed questions after getting some feedback about how to improve them, all the more so if in doing so they resolve the initial problem. However, it's not ...
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A closed question that has recieved multiple edits, opened again, then reverted to its original state, why can't I vote to close it?
There seems to be an issue with editing questions, not yet (as of the date of this question) settled.
There is another, perhaps buggy issue with question edits, the initial form of the question was ...
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Can we make "on hold" less terrible?
Being put "on hold" sucks. Yes, I get it - it's a chance to edit questions without getting unhelpful answers, and a grand opportunity for us to make the question better and thus improve the ...
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Additional review tools?
I've been doing some reviewing lately, and I think two additional features in the review queue would be very helpful.
First, enable the "see vote counts" from within the review tools, normally ...
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