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Clarifying "Novice questions are off-topic"
The appropriate thing to do with repetitive, boring novice questions is to close them as a duplicate of the appropriate canonical question. If we are lacking a sufficient canonical Q&A, we need to ma …
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Nope! The SE robot does a few things with these.
Questions with no upvoted answers are bumped to the front page in pairs at random. I believe two questions are picked every four hours. This is int …
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New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013)
This would be nice for issues where someone is complaining about things like where to download a module for some software from, or how to get an ISP to fix an issue with their peering or provide diffe …
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New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013)
I've seen this float by a few times as well. It happens often, though I'm not sure it happens often enough to be a canonical close reason.
This question appears to be off-topic because it is abou …
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Clarifying the "shopping question" close reason
I think maybe it should read:
Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they attract self-promotion and opinion-based answers, and the answers becom …
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New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013)
The scenario in question no longer exists or the problem has gone away without intervention; no solution is possible or necessary. Potential solutions to this problem are therefore of little use t …
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Why isn't SE, Inc. bothering to *explain* all the changes in close vote reasons?
I believe the new reasons were inspired by the top 3 proposals from New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013), with the first two amalgamated.
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New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013)
We get some things which are probably not for home use or dev use, but are certainly not professional either. I could see this close reason being used with a "how to cPanel" question or a problem som …