Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
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What is the purpose/intention/goal for closing a question
I imagine that this has been asked already but searching here on meta and on google I could not find the deep reasons to why someone votes to close a question. The stack exchange information on vote ...
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Unilateral vote by moderator
Re Why can I write 2x as alternative to 2 x?. Looking at the timeline we can see that it was closed as primarily opinion-based and then edited. It entered the reopen queue, where the two users that ...
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Are we closing questions too quickly?
This meta-question results from the closing of this question in less than 48 hours. I do not argue that the question should be reopened. I do argue that by closing it so quickly we closed it for the ...
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Close Vote from Question vs. from Review Queue
I've noticed that Close votes made from the Review Queue are counted in the individual cumulative totals of Close votes cast (seen by placing the cursor over the icon of a user on the Review Queue ...
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What can we expect for our closing questions rate?
Comparing the historical closed questions percentage on SO and Mma SE you can see very different behaviors:
I don't want to analyze here the StackOverflow site particular nuisances, but I'm ...
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Relationship between close votes and Review Queue
I usually don't pay much attention as to how the Review Queue behaves, but today I found the following situation:
This question has 2 Close Votes:
However, while I expect the question to be found ...
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Is it really necessary to close as duplicate if the other question is on StackOverflow?
Inspired by this question, which is a duplicate of this question on StackOverflow:
Is it really necessary to close a question here if it was previously asked on StackOverflow? I would have thought ...
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