Timeline for Close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3
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| Jan 9, 2020 at 0:17 | comment | added | Machavity | Oh, quite the opposite (closing things quickly is kinda a thing I do). I want things closed quickly. I also recognize that the queue needs an active pool of reviewers to stay healthy (the new review icon didn't help things). A 100% moderator reviewed queue isn't a good thing in most cases. That's all I'm saying. | |
| Jan 9, 2020 at 0:10 | comment | added | womble Mod | I will say, though, that if you're arguing that we should let questions slowly accumulate close votes over a period of days/weeks (not sure if you are or aren't), my response to that is that bad questions beget bad questions, and there's no "questions that have had close votes for more than two weeks" review queue for me to chew on, so smashing things closed early and often is the only practical approach. | |
| Jan 9, 2020 at 0:07 | comment | added | womble Mod | I would love to not have to diamond-smash as many terribad questions closed, but there doesn't appear to be the reviewer volume. I "Skip" about 20% of questions (ones that are borderline one way or another) so there's no shortage of questions for others to review. On the "reopen vote threshold goes to three as well", it would be interesting to see if there are many closed questions that get to three but not five reopen votes. I have no data explorer fu, though, so I doubt I'll be the person to answer that question. | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | Machavity | I'm not terribly active on SF, but I would argue that's not necessarily good for the queue. As I noted elsewhere, you really want a healthy pool of reviewers knocking bad questions down. The converse view here is that it makes reopening things harder (the same level for CVs applies to reopen). I'm not saying you're wrong (maybe SF is fine with 5 and an active mod cleaning the queue), but it is some food for thought. | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 23:14 | history | answered | wombleMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |