Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
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Closing "Insufficient Effort" questions
Some time ago, John Rennie asked,
...in many cases it looks as if the OP simply can't be bothered to put any effort in. Do we have a policy for closing (or not closing) such questions?
The Meta ...
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What is the line between fiction and physics with respect to off-topic?
There is a question I believe to be well on topic, relevant, and interesting. It is asking to consider a fictional scenario and evaluate, as given in the fictional scenario, whether it is possible to ...
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Testing 3-vote close and reopen
After discussion about this was started two and a half years ago, I'm here to share that I'm enabling a test of three-vote close on Physics today. Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your patience. ...
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Is over-vigilant monitoring of questions driving people away from the site?
Now, I know the need to create standards for asking questions. However, particularly for first time users, the ability to ask questions in a way that this forum expects can be difficult, often due to ...
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Folks, we need to talk about the surface-area-of-a-chicken question
This question
How do I find the approximate surface area of a chicken?
underwent a severe close/reopen yo-yo cycle. It was closed once by a moderator, then reopened by community members, then re-...
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Should we test lowering the vote to close and reopen threshold?
Update 2
For the most recent information about this request, see the test announcement post - Testing 3-vote close and reopen
Update
Based on the votes, we will be giving this experiment a try. We are ...
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What happened with the experiment to lower the vote-to-close threshold?
In December 2019, the moderator team posted the question Should we test lowering the vote to close and reopen threshold?, which was positively received, and there was a clear agreement and intention ...
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Community, help us close questions!
Back in the early days of the site, there was a question about letting the community close questions through the normal 5-votes-to-close mechanism. That was a little impractical at the time because we ...
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A guide to moderating Physics Stack Exchange yourself: close voting
So one thing that came out of our recent chat meeting the call to close questions was that some of our high rep members have been reluctant to cast close votes because it has been more or less ...
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Chat session to discuss and possibly finalize close reasons
We have a bunch of proposed close reasons here, and there recently have been a few more good ones brought up there (Like Chris' alternative homework close reason or tpg's "engineering" close ...
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Moderators enjoying their vacation? (especially without any message)
I've noticed a sudden increment in the close vote queue (minimum 10 per day, upto 15 or so) for the past few days. Maybe people (except a few) haven't noticed that mods are having a vacation. I can ...
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What guidelines should moderators use to decide when to close questions?
Recently, Noldorin has closed three questions that I've noticed:
They are a question about using household devices to experiment with electromagnetism , econophysics, and whether a certain definable ...
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(How) do we make it explicit that "please check my work"-type questions are off-topic?
This is an outgrowth of the discussion in chat, following this earlier question by Daniel Sank.
I think we, as a community, agree (for the most part) that "please check my work"-type questions are ...
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Is Vote to Close as Off-Topic an appropriate remedy for questions that are deemed too "populist"?
Background: There are users who have been using the privilege to vote to close a question as off-topic as a way of dealing with "populist" questions (see the discussion here) believing them to be "...
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Reminder that Book Recommendations are on topic
Can whoever is flagging resource-recommendations as off-topic because they are primarily opinion based please stop doing so?
The community decided a long time ago that these types of questions are on-...
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When should moderators close questions?
I have recently found instances of moderators closing questions (which of course occurs with their single vote) instead of leaving them to be judged by the community in the review queues. For example :...
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Why directly voting to close a question does not add to your number of reviews in the queue?
If you go into the "close votes" review queue and either selecting "Leave Open" or "Close" adds a count to the number of reviews you have done in the "close votes" queue. However, if you are viewing a ...
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Reasons for Closing
First: I realize there has been a lot of discussion of the reasons for closing, and I haven't followed most of it, so I apologize for any redundancy here.
That having been said: Here is an example ...
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Does the mechanism for marking duplicates change when you reach 50k rep, and if so, can this be avoided?
I voted to close this question as a duplicate, and to my surprise it was immediately closed. The message in the yellow box lists only my name, which makes it sound like my own vote was the only one ...
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Are there guidelines for reopening questions?
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My closed question originally asked: Why is the sign of gravitational inertial mass chosen to be positive like EM inertial mass? and was put on hold:
On hold as unclear what you're ...
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What are the mechanisms to remove a question from the close queue?
I am interested in understanding better what it needs for a question to be removed from the close queue for good, apart from the obvious closing or deleting it. I have heard about several things ...
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Are some questions closed "too fast", and is it a problem?
I bring as an example this question, that has been closed after ~12 hours: What exactly are electrons if they exist in orbitals without real boundaries?
The OP seems to be someone that does not use ...
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Should it be mandatory that close votes be accompanied by comments?
I have read the help page various times to get help with asking questions. While that helped, I still sometimes find my questions downvoted or voted to close. That is without explanation. That leaves ...
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Flag questions that are actively being answered when voted for closure and postponing the closing until submission
Quite often I spend a lot of time and effort to put together an answer to possibly not-so-robust questions (lacking details or an unclear question) only to be closed before I can submit. It is ...
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