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2023: a year in closing
One of the traditions we have here on MSE as the calendar year changes, is to post some statistics about post closures and reopenings across the network for the preceding calendar year. In light of ...
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What's the longest question duplicate chain on SE?
I wonder what the longest question duplicate chain is on SE. For example, Matching files with various extensions using for loop is closed a duplicate of Brace expansion with variable?, which is closed ...
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Why doesn't Stack Exchange allow multiple questions in a single post? [duplicate]
I do understand the need for this when the questions are unrelated. But why does it have to be even when the questions are related?
Perhaps, I've asked a few questions on one of the sites, and it was ...
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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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Why am I getting so many closed and deleted questions recently? [closed]
Am I really that bad in writing? Am I really getting worse and worse?
I am a part of The Community (I am proud that I can write it in capitals; there is no sarcasm in here) for at least 10 years. I've ...
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Do questions have to restate all implications of supplied content to be acceptable? [closed]
In other words, do questions have to meet encyclopedia level verbiage requirements to be helpful?
In the case of this question on Server Fault (which I didn't pose):
Debian update failed
My first ...
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2022: a year in closing
Let’s take a look at how last year looks in terms of closing across the network. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange sites in 2022.
The same ...
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Closed post message "List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege" is misleading
It says
List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege
Apparently, that's not the case as mentioned in
How could we improve our planned post notice improvements?...
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What percentage of closed questions that get submitted for review are eventually re-opened?
Just curious, what percentage of questions that get submitted (and/or re-submitted) for review by the post owner get eventually reopened after the "significant edit" option was added to the ...
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What makes people upvote a question? [duplicate]
Whenever I ask a question on any site (especially meta sites), its answers get more upvotes than itself (especially the accepted answer), even if the question is very poorly received, and sometimes ...
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No feedback after submitting a closed question for review [closed]
My question was closed 3 days ago for being off-topic
Programming Exercises UX
I made the necessary changes in order to comply with the guidelines, following the feedback I was given. I haven't heard ...
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Must a meta SE question prove site generality?
My question How to handle an unnecessarily complex question was closed as site specific. Although no one explained why in principle any site couldn't have a "noisy" question, there were ...
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How to clarify a question closed as site specific
My question How to handle an unnecessarily complex question was closed as site specific. I didn't intend it as such, as any Stack Exchange site can have the kind of overly complex question the meta ...
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What are the actual guidelines for deleting popular off-topic closed questions?
I recently noticed a relatively popular question (34 upvotes on the question, 42 on the top answer) get deleted on Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/q/29876518/1108305). This question was ...
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2021: a year in closing
I am thrilled to share that this year we are continuing Shog9’s tradition of sharing numbers on closed posts across the network. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on ...
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My question was closed, how far can my edits go to get it reopened? [duplicate]
The help center states:
Stack Exchange is collaboratively built, maintained, and moderated by the community. If you see a question and you disagree with the stated reason of its closure, you should ...
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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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How can I self-answer my closed question? [duplicate]
I posted a question, however it was closed with a reason I don't understand.
I've found the answer myself and I would like to share the answer with the community, is there any way I can leave the ...
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Have there been analyses to see if views of well-received answers are reduced by closure as duplicate which try to control for other factors?
This is a narrowly-scoped question; I'm just curious if this has been investigated quantitatively.
Background only:
I spent some substantial time and effort and love and coffee writing this answer to ...
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Why could I answer a closed question? [duplicate]
I've started writing an answer for this question: How to wrap elements populated by array of objects in pairs and when I submitted it, I noticed it had been closed 30 minutes ago.
Usually, when this ...
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Question with answer deleted by author - the difference of an upvote
I recently answered this question on Stack Overflow, and following my answer and some communication in the comments, the author deleted the question.
If I understand correctly, an author may not ...
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2020: a year in closing
I am thrilled to share that this year we are continuing a tradition started by Shog9 five years ago. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange ...
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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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Is it "by design" that "answers in flight" are not accepted on closed questions, but that some still can submit?
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This question comes off the back of a question I asked on Stack Overflow Meta about the grace periods of answers. Specifically it was my confusion that I, personally, cannot submit answers ...
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"Question closed" notifications experiment results and graduation
Users have long been asking for and discussing the pros and cons of a feature to proactively inform the question asker when their question has been closed. Although the initial response many years ago ...
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When closing a post, send an edit request to an active community member
I'm a new lurker in psychology.stackexchange.com and I've noticed that it's getting harder and harder to ask questions, especially because the moderators have kept closing posts that are sometimes ...
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Is a question deleted automatically once the downvote threshold has been met? [duplicate]
I recently asked a question in the wrong place (which has since been closed), and as a result my reputation has suffered a bombardment of downvotes. Ok, oops, wrong place, but now I cant even delete ...
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How do bounties on closed questions work? [duplicate]
I answered a question with a bounty and my answer was accepted, but the question was closed (it was flagged as needing to be more focused). What happens to the bounty? I didn't get it, and now there ...
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Why do I get a "hooray, your question was reopened" message when the question seem not to have been closed? [duplicate]
I received today for one of my questions the following Inbox message:
I am surprised because:
I didn't even know the question was closed (I neither saw any counter on the close flag, nor the [closed]...
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Which Stack Exchange website has the highest question close percentage? [duplicate]
Which Stack Exchange website has the highest question close percentage?
I see on https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats that Medical Sciences Stack Exchange's question ...
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Question Close Updates
This week we rolled out a series of changes to improve parts of the question close workflow. You can read more about the details of these changes here.
For context, the overall effort to improve ...
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Can Community Moderators and Stack Overflow employees post answers on closed questions?
Since this doesn't appear to have been asked before:
Can elected moderators (and Community Managers, and other Stack Overflow employees) post answers on Questions that have been closed? This would ...
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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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Why are we so quick to close question? [closed]
I left Wikipedia years ago because of the constant warring between deletionists and whatever else you call "regular" people who contribute content instead of trying to delete everything that gets ...
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Question closed before I updated it. Do I need to just write a new one or just wait? [duplicate]
I recently asked this question: How to go about finding where traffic is getting held up?
I just now updated the question, and honestly I don't know if it's an acceptable question even now, but it's ...
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2019: a year in closing
Closing and reopening questions is a very small part of what goes on around this network... But it gets a lot of attention, and always has. Particularly over the past year, as we've tested some pretty ...
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Can we have a permanent bye to "on-hold"?
Whenever I click on "Close" button to cast a close vote on an already loaded page of a closed question when it wasn't closed, this dialog appears:
But since the redesign of post notices, "on-hold" ...
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New Post Notices are live network-wide
For further issues, bugs and feedback that have not been covered by existing answers here please feel free to ask a new question.
A few minutes ago, new Post Notices were launched across the Stack ...
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Can we bring ancient duplicates up to date?
In the past, before we had the current closure notes the community user edited in the possible duplicates inside the text of the question, once the question got closed. See for example here.
Today ...
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New Post Notices rollout on Stack Overflow
New Post Notices have been launched network-wide. Please post all new feedback, bugs and feature requests to the new announcement post.
As has been previously announced, we have been working for some ...
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How could we improve our planned post notice improvements?
Megan has written a post on the Stack Overflow blog about changes that are planned/upcoming on the Stack Exchange platform.
I've seen a bunch of discussion about it on chat - but it feels like having ...
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What should I do about unjustly closed questions? [closed]
When I browse through Stack Overflow, I sometimes see closed questions which shouldn't be closed in my opinion. For example, this question is closed. I flagged it as "in need of moderator intervention"...
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2018: a year in closing
Continuing my sometimes-annual practice of posting these numbers, here is the information on how many questions were closed on various sites around the network in 2018:
Site ...
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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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Are there any questions closed by 5 moderators?
Inspired by this question on Worldbuilding Meta, where a user noted that a question was closed by two ♦ moderators:
For some people it might be obvious what happened here: one of the moderators ...
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How can I alleviate downvotes on a closed, but answered question? [duplicate]
OK, so let me explain this question with an example.
I ask a really stupid question that's either duplicate or too broad or something else.
Someone answers my question, and the first line of the ...
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2017: a year in closing
Last year I posted some numbers on how many questions were closed on various sites around the network in the preceding year. This ended up being kinda handy to refer back to, so I'm gonna do it again: ...
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Should grammar edits of closed questions be approved? [duplicate]
If a question is closed or put on hold, usually nobody bothers to fix spelling mistakes in it. But if a new user does it, should the edit be approved? It does technically edit the post, although not ...
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Edits on closed posts
Should questions or answers on questions that are closed be edited, even if the question is closed and the edit does not change anything about the reason it's closed?
Example: This answer was just ...
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Reposting a closed or held question
In theory, when a question is voted closed, then the OP edits the question to be site-appropriate, the question will be added to a review queue.
However, in practice, the question, now made good, ...
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