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Can we increase the number of close-votes per day?

Recenly, in Chat it was suggested by an SF moderator: One side issue is, given the volume we're seeing now, I don't think users have enough daily close votes. The response by an SE employee was: …
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11 votes

Close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3

I pretty much gave up closing and close-vote reviewing during the recent Monica fiasco. Although I totally agree that closing bad questions is the right thing to do, and although I think I can safely …
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What to do with hard disk lifetime questions?

(Since this is Meta, I'm not even going to wait for Mark to post his comment as an answer, just gonna steal it quick...) 3rd option - merge the two older questions and close the new one (and any in t …
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7 votes

Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines, round 2

One big flaw is that there's now no generic "off-topic" close reason. There are tons of crappy questions that are arguably on-topic somewhere else but you're not supposed to migrate crap. The gene …
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6 votes

Should Server Fault be removed from Stack Overflow's migration list?

The rejection rate has gone up because more people are reviewing close votes and because someone (he says coyly) is searching for "migrated:1" on SO and casting an initial close vote on the crappy one …
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4 votes

The Canada tag should probably go

I would have liked the CANADA tag to be retained - it's appropriate for questions pertaining to IT in Igloos, or hazards facing consultants travelling to sites where moose or polar bears are common.
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4 votes
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What to do with hard disk lifetime questions?

We got this question today: https://serverfault.com/questions/388656/hard-disk-lifespan I voted to close it as a duplicate of this one: Does an unplugged hard drive used for data archival deteriorate …
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3 votes

why my question got closed?

The reason your question was closed is given right after the announcement that it was closed: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly …
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2 votes
1 answer
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Can we have our own FAQ?

I've always found the "FAQ" at meta.stackoverflow to be useless. I'd like to see a few pages that have "all" the information on a topic (e.g. reputation) w/out having to click back and forth to a lis …
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0 votes

No editing toolbar

Nope, I seem to have the toolbar for answering...
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0 votes
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Review bug: I pick "leave closed" and it pops up "Nominate for re-opening?" [duplicate]

I don't have screen shots, but it's happened twice now, so there must be a bug related to the new close reasons being activated on SF... When reviewing re-opens, after reading the question and decidi …
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