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4 votes

Question closed as not constructive / locked

I'm inclined to agree with you, but also the question itself isn't a great fit for this site. In this situation it's attracted a very good answer, but normally hit-and-run questions like that attract …
Mark Henderson's user avatar
9 votes

Shopping Question? Why?

Why do people mark a question to be closed without any note/explanation? There was an explanation from Chris S, that you even commented on yourself. If you read the links in Chris's comment, yo …
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5 votes
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Reopen this question?

The correct way to do this is to flag the question for moderator attention and ask for a review and possible re-opening in there. Posting on Meta is also perfectly fine; it will get attention here, b …
Mark Henderson's user avatar
4 votes

Should poorly researched, basic, but answerable questions be closed?

Ultimately that question should have been killed on Stack Overflow - don't migrate crap. I agree with its closing because this guy is clearly not a systems administrator - he's a turkey that has conv …
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5 votes
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Flag a closed question for removal?

Flag as mod attention, and just enter some descriptive text as to why you think it should be deleted. Otherwise, if we see "low quality" and that it's already closed, we're likely to dismiss the flag, …
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4 votes

My question was locked as off topic. Where should I take it to

The question was closed by 5 high-rep users on the site. It's unfortunate that none of them felt the need to leave a message as to why. Especially considering it has a +5 score, which is pretty good f …
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4 votes

Clearing out the crap. We need some people with diamonds next to their name to help out!

I'm not going to be deleting a lot of those, for one good reason: viewed: 6,811 times viewed: 4,614 times viewed: 2,757 times Anything that has views > 1.5*(days old) is going to stay (or roughly …
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7 votes

Why were my questions deleted and account suspended?

I have asked 5 questions over a period of many months, and all have been closed/deleted (all unfairly in my opinion) ostensibly by "community" (read moderators). The last part of this statement …
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