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Why was question closed as "does not appear to be about programming" when 2/3 close-voters voted for "belongs on superuser.com"? [closed]
Question 77283401 was closed as
This question does not appear to be about programming within the scope defined in the help center.
because 2 people voted "belongs on superuser.com" and 1 ...
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Questions closed for multiple community-specific reasons should be clear about that fact
It happens sometimes - especially on Stack Overflow - that a question will receive three close votes for community-specific reasons (i.e., as off-topic), and each voter will choose a different reason. ...
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Is “needs details or clarity” connected to the help center article on questions that are automatically blocked for not meeting quality standards? [closed]
I have noticed that dozens of old questions have been recently unilaterally closed in Web Apps SE as “needs details or clarity”, or closed as duplicates of questions also closed as “needs details or ...
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What can I do if I disagree on the reason a question was closed, and believe it should have instead been closed as a duplicate? [duplicate]
What can I do if a question was closed for reason A but I believe that it should have been closed for reason B? Is the only option to vote to reopen it and then vote to close it again with reason B?
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Can moderators be given a way to change the close reason on a question without clearing reopen votes?
Assume some users voted to reopen a question. Then, a mod came by, noticed that the close reason on the question was wrong, so they reopened and closed the question again to correct the close reason. ...
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How does this question "not appear to seek input and discussion from the community"?
Question in question: Is it a good practice to write an answer to respond to another answer, rather than actually answer the question?
It is closed for being off-topic with the reason:
This question ...
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When are multiple closure reasons provided in the post notice?
I noticed in this recently closed question that there are multiple close reasons presented.
Here's a screenshot of the post notice:
From my understanding, only one close reason is selected when ...
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Why are specific close reasons no longer shown to users?
Lately, I have noticed that whereas previously the exact reason a question was closed alongside who casted close votes was shown, a more generic "Off-Topic" or similar reason is shown without the ...
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If questions are closed as being too broad or unclear, should they not be deleted too quick?
I understand the reason to delete unclear or too broad questions. In short, it bases on the broken window theory, which states that minor forms of bad behavior encourage worse ones. A neighborhood ...
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What happens to questions closed as blatantly off-topic?
The following close reason appears on every single Stack Exchange site when you're voting/flagging to close a question as off-topic:
Blatantly off-topic (this question has nothing to do with [...
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Why is the close reason for this question from another stack?
This question was recently closed on Arts&Crafts.SE
https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/2066/freelance-artist-needs-to-earn-extra-cash
In case something changes this is the close text:
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I want an explanation of why people voted to close my legitimate financial question [closed]
This question is a legitimate financial question and concern for people advising financially like me. I want an explanation of why people are voting to close this, outside of two personal vendettas ...
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Is it acceptable to bend the question guidelines for a popular question?
I am trying to get this question re-opened: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/141039/what-are-the-biggest-unsolved-problems-in-reinforcement-learning?noredirect=1#comment269588_141039
The ...
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will all those "closed as offtopic" questions be migrated automatically to softwarerecs? [duplicate]
I recently noticed that there is softwarerecs.stackexchange.com (in beta)
Will those questions asked across all SE sites and closed as offtopic because they were asking for software recommendations be ...
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When a question is closed for duplicate and <other-reason>, shouldn't the duplicate be shown?
It sometimes happens that a question has more than one problem, and could be closed for all of those. When that happens, the reason that collected most votes is chosen as the close reason: there can ...
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Reasonable ways to ask for possible approaches to a problem
Many questions that seek (legitimately in my opinion) to ask "what are my options for solving this problem?" seem to me to be almost summarily closed on SE sites without thought to how difficult it is ...
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How to fetch the close reason for a closed question using voteTypeId
How can I find, from the data in the Stack Exchange datadump, the close reason if a question is voted to close by using the VoteTypeId column?.
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Invalid reasons given for putting my post about modifying an XAML document on hold
I received the following reply to a post:
"put on hold as too broad by Robert Harvey♦ 11 mins ago
"There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this ...
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the concept of too broad, primarily opinion violation [duplicate]
tl; dr: I was offended by 2 questions that got closed and reopened multiple times here and here.
Both of these questions got lots of downvotes, then got closed, then reopened, then upvoted, and so on. ...
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Limiting downvotes to those with an accompanying comment [duplicate]
Don't you think a downvote without a comment, even a 2 word comment, is just unnatural, non constructive and against Stack Overflow regulations itself?
I mean if someone wants to downvote, sure thing ...
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Why bother closing questions? [duplicate]
This is sort of an SO zeitgeist question.
I thought I might dig into the python backlog (there are 800 pages of questions) to clear out of some of the fluff - there are a lot of questions that are ...
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Is this off-topic question really off-topic?
Dig, if you will, the picture... Here we have a question posted on SO:
how to remove the batch file you just used
This was closed as "Off-Topic". But, it's really not much different than every ...
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Question marked as opinion based; no fact that makes it opinion based?
I asked this question on Stack Overflow where I asked about the proper way to handle the database in Android. Why I asked this was because I had seen different answers on which would be the proper ...
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Why do questions like this get closed? [closed]
Looking at this question: Improve INSERT-per-second performance of SQLite?
I don't see the motivation for closing it. The aggregated knowledge in the question itself clearly shows that the question ...
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What to do with an invalid close reason?
This question is currently in the reopen queue, as it was noted that it's not a duplicate. However it's still off-topic and should either be closed anyway or migrated to TeX SE site. I'm not sure how ...
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Question regarding difference between two tools off-topic but why? [closed]
I am referring to this post because there is a lot of confusion:
What are the advantages of Sublime Text over Notepad++ and vice-versa?
So it was closed as off-topic because it was deemed subjective....
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Is it time to be rid of automatic down votes on certain closed questions?
Right now, certain close reasons carry automatic downvotes.
The original reason for this was largely to enforce specific quality bans in part because people were not down voting questions. Now that ...
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Markdown in an old closing reason is not rendered correctly
On Bolding with ** isn't working properly, the closing reason contains Markdown markup that is rendered as it were plain text.
[network](https://stackexchange.com/sites) should be rendered as ...
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Is "Lunatic Speculation" a reasonable reason to close a question with 18 upvotes, 5 answers, 5 stars? [closed]
The question: Travelling by bus
The comment above the close reason:
I voted to close not because the asker didn't know what he was asking, but because the question is a lightning rod for lunatic ...
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If a question is both too broad and a duplicate, should it be closed as "too broad" or "duplicate of..."?
When a question is clearly too broad (shopping list style or opinion based) AND it has a clear duplicate (that is already closed) with a lot of good answers and information, should we close the ...
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Make the closed-as-duplicate indicator grammatically correct
I just noticed this:
marked as duplicate by Bob, John, Joe, Jill, Jane 8 millennia ago
I'm interested in the marked as duplicate part.
I believe that before the big close reason change it said '...
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Is the title considered part of the question?
A question on SO was recently closed by 5 members of the community as "not a real question". If you look strictly at the body of the question, that's true, but if you consider the question's title, it ...
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Why this question was downvoted and closed?
Drivers for recent (64-bit) version of Windows must be signed before
they'll load. Which certificate issuers can supply a certificate
suitable for this?
http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Help center for closed questions is/will-be outdated
Since the "brand new, consolidated" help center has already been out on all sites in Stack Exchange network since June 5, 2013, and the new closing reasons are about to be launched this week, I'd like ...
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What's not constructive about this?
I asked https://stackoverflow.com/q/16984187/1544337 yesterday or so and today I noticed it was closed as not constructive. Earlier, I already saw an NC vote, and also a too localized one. Now, there ...
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Standards that meets to ask some question on stackoverflow [closed]
If someone asked question about something that he doesn't know. Like..
I am windows phone developer and my whole expertise are in windows phone and .NET technologies. And I want to do something like ...
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Any insight on why this question was closed?
Question: Why is the SSMS GUI so slow and what can I do to fix it?
The question linked above received 2 close votes, I asked for comments regarding the issue and this morning I've found it's been ...
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Why is only 1 reason displayed on closed questions when different reason votes were cast for it?
I recently closed this question as being too localized, but a majority of other users closed it as being not a real question, so the latter is displayed as being the sole reason of why the question ...
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What's the point of "closing" a question?
I'm curious as to why questions get closed at all. I understand that certain sects of SO adhere very strictly to the (frankly, esoteric) FAQ, but I'm at a loss as to why this functionality exists at ...
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I do not understand the 'too localized' closure of questions [closed]
Yes, I get the other reasons for closing questions, but too localized because a question might only effect a small area of people?
Personally, I see any question deserves to have an answer if it is ...
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I would like to know why question 16313526 was closed [closed]
Leaving aside the content of the XML...
I answered a question (10K needed to see) which received 5 downvotes and then the moderator deleted the question.
Why was it? Was it because of a problem from ...
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Should "Too broad" be made distinct from "Not a real question"? [duplicate]
Two years ago, "not a real question" was modified to include "too broad" as a reason. Having spent some time on the review tool, I now believe that closing questions that are too ...
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Why is rounding in SQL closed as off-topic? [closed]
I realize that this question is not a stellar question. But it's certainly programming related. For example in the Netherlands, you have to round cash sales to the nearest 5 cents, because we do not ...
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Help us make "Off-Topic" close reasons clearer to the OP
Goals for "Off-Topic"
We'll be asking for your help on a number of closing issues, but this post is focused on how we can improve "Off-Topic" closures.
Don't worry, we plan to keep ...
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Valid question closed for user asking too many other questions
User2057693 is a new user who seems to be writing his own collection in C#, but does not know C# and therefore asks a lot of (not always top-notch) questions. Some people are annoyed by this and vote ...
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Make closing question users post a conscious explanation [duplicate]
I have question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14698983/can-a-thread-be-hijacked-otherwise-than-gc-and-some-rare-task-scheduling
I am sure this is valid question - I am not new on SO.
It was ...
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Temporary measure re informing users about prospects for reopening closed questions
I see (several|many) questions on meta.stackoverflow.com asking about the closing of specific questions, getting similar responses. Also, there are this one and perhaps a few others which are the meta-...
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Why is this question closed and downvoted?
I'm talking about this question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/14121900/1087848.
It is a kind of obvious solution, but it is a practical and answerable question, it was most probably even a problem ...
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Which duplicate questions should be closed? [duplicate]
When a question (probably with several answers) that was asked a long time ago gets bumped via an edit or another answer sometimes it is discovered that there are duplicate questions. In most cases ...
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Do we need to remove the closer "not constructive" from specialty focused sites?
I asked a question over at sharepoint.stackexchange.com that was closed as not constructive.
While this question may not fit in the narrow guidelines of what SE is looking for it is definitely not ...
