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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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Canonical post in first post review, how to react?

To my understanding canonical questions are a ServerFault convention, of which the review-question selection algorithm is completely unaware. Which is to say, it had to happen some time. Treat it ...
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Delete reasons in the Low Quality Posts review queue are alternating

It depends on the reputation level of the person whose answer you're reviewing. If they have too low a reputation to be able to post comments, the first option will be used. If they have enough ...
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If you don't vote, the site will die

It's probably a lost cause to try to get people to vote more: Most mature SE sites suffer from a lack of voting - I've seen comments about it on almost every one I'm somewhat active on. You seem to ...
Ward - Reinstate Monica's user avatar
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Why is this question off topic here?

Read the yellow box. OP doesn't tell us anything about his environment. It can be reopened when it is improved.
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6 votes

Close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3

I'm not against this change, but I don't know whether it'll do very much. I keep on top of the close votes review queue, to keep it under control, and it's pretty rare that I hit a question that has ...
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Close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3

Some of you may have noticed the Meta Stack Exchange post - Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites (it's linked in the featured on meta sidebar) - we've finally got this project under ...
Catija's user avatar
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The "closed" review queue is zero

There are currently 38 questions in the close queue. If you have already voted on or skipped them, they do not show for you.
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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Veeery old review answer

This answer at Meta SE posits that this is OK: This is, while unusual, an expected result of the system. The way the late answers queue works is by checking two things. Was the answer posted at ...
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4 votes

Close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3

Thanks everyone for the feedback ! As the feedback is nuanced in the answers provided; not a No, but more like a shy Yes, but the suggestion is kinda up-voted much. I asked a CM and it's a change ...
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Why is this question off topic here?

However the close reason is clear and just, it seems a bit odd to put this under "off topic". The question is just lacking details, but that would be more of an "unclear what you're asking" type of ...
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2 votes

Close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3

I agree with Ward, the community should be doing more of this but the fundamental problem has always been there aren't enough people voting to close. I could be wrong about this but there seems to ...
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