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 ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
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 ...
womble's user avatar
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6 votes
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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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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 ...
yagmoth555's user avatar
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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 ...
Greg Askew's user avatar
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