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I'll be posting some of the searches I do to find bad questions and anyone else who has ideas can do the same. … Since the automatic delete rules mention locked questions, here's the official FAQ post on those. …

I think they should be closed because they're almost always overly broad (NARQ), often they're shopping questions (what equipment is the best value - Too Localized), and many times the person asking doesn't …

The fastest way to get rid of bad questions is to close them and make sure they have a downvote. Here are some ideas for searching for bad questions... … The syntax shown limits it to only -1) You'll see that once you go 30 days back, there are very, very few -1 questions left. Yay! All sorts of bad questions gone. …

General Reference is not well-liked on SF.SE. Among other things, there's little agreement on what "standard Internet reference source" means. Wikipedia and IMdB are about the only widely accepted …

I happened to see the three questions below in short succession, and they all struck me as being "non-questions" because the problems described were either due to a typo or a misinterpretation of what …

It's funny that this came up today: all day I've been pondering how to ask a subjective question and worrying that it might be considered a list question. For this question, there are a couple thing …

Inspired by @Iain, I'm cutting back on close vote reviewing for a while to try to close some questions. … .-2 closed:0 This returns open questions with no answers and multiple downvotes, lots of them are crappy and deserve closing. …

The consensus seems to be that most questions where the problem turns out to be a typo are ok. …