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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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How should I vote on a question which I consider too low quality to migrate?
You should still vote to close. Other people's votes are not your responsibility. All you can do is vote correctly.
Certainly, disagreeing with a close vote isn't a valid reason to flag, for example.
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3-vote close - how's it going?
Oh, please do not reset it to 5 while reviewing anything. This change has been such a massive improvement that going back to 5 even briefly would just bring back all the old pain.
Questions are ...
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How to deal with off-topic questions that cannot be closed?
You can flag it for moderator attention. A moderator can then deal with the bounty and close the question.
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Don't vote to close so many old questions at once
(cough noob cough)
Oh, that jerk... yeah, he sucks. But, at the same time, 50 close votes a day... use 'em or lose 'em. If they age out, they can be re-cast, so worst case, "losing" a close vote to ...
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Should questions "solved by a reboot" be closed?
There's a difference between "I don't know what happened but a reboot fixed it" and "A reboot is needed because reasons". The later is useful, for those unaware that a reboot is necessary. Consider ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
Are there things other than 3-vote close impacting your interest in reviewing?
The UI changes that increase the number of clicks required to do common tasks certainly hasn't increased my motivation ...
wombleMod
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Nope! The SE robot does a few things with these.
Questions with no upvoted answers are bumped to the front page in pairs at random. I believe two questions are picked every four hours. This is ...
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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 ...
wombleMod
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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 ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
It definitely helped, yes!
Items spend less time in the queue and they are processed before they age out... It would be interesting to see the number of items that aged out of the queue before vs now.
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3-vote close - how's it going?
I Agree to Everyone, 3 is a nice number which does do its job. It's DEFINITELY helping, yes.
Did this help? -YES, Definitely
Did it Hurt? -Only those, that are Spamming this Site with Off topic - ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
From this moderator's point of view the change has been beneficial. Flag-volume is mostly not an answer issues, and is leaving the questions alone for the most part. Once in a while I'll see one ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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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 ...
yagmoth555Mod
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Should questions "solved by a reboot" be closed?
Subsequent to my posting this Meta question, the question I referenced in my post has been put on hold. I therefore conclude it was correct to initiate action to close this question.
Based on the ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
My impressions as a new user here:
Many questions are RTFM-questions. People claim to have read the manual, yet the manual clearly answers their questions.
Lack of research or understanding. People ...
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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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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Per the link meta.so Journeyman Geek mentioned, the easiest way to get these removed is to vote the question below 0. It'll get reaped within a week. No need to vote-to-close them and wait for a ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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