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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 …
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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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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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VirtualBox cleanup

The tag is not necessarily evil, but I have no doubt this is a hotspot for off-topic questions. I intend to go through them on a case-by-case basis a bit, and I suggest other non-moderators do the sa …
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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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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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