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Vote to Close Reason - Easily RTFM'd

I strongly disagree with this. While it has been argued repeatedly that one of the halmarks of "professional" is "able to use Google effectively to solve problems", not everyone has mad search-engin …
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Why is the close vote quota so low?

Right now ServerFault is rocking a question close rate of 28.8%. This is a bit up from when I last checked it a few months ago (26.6% for Feb-Mar), when it was a few percentage points lower. In fact, …
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3-vote close - how's it going?

From this moderator's point of view the change has been beneficial. Flag-volume is mostly not an answer issues, and is leaving the questions alone for the most part. Once in a while I'll see one reque …
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Choosing the appropriate close reason

I use NARQ whenever I see a question that falls into "overly broad". I need to figure out what kind of server I need for an office of ten architects. I tend to trot out NC for questions that ar …
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Can we weed out the benchmarking questions?

While we do get a lot of these, I think a FAQ-ban would be a bad idea. We tend to treat the FAQ as holy writ around here, and have zero tolerance attitudes towards things specifically excluded in it. …
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?

Per the link meta.so Journeyman Geek mentioned, the easiest way to get these removed is to vote the question below 0. It'll get reaped within a week. No need to vote-to-close them and wait for a conse …
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