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I frequently come across questions that are very similar to questions that I voted to "closed as duplicate" or "delete" etc. So currently I have to manually go to the votes tab and then click on the respective menu option like deleted, or closure etc.

Thus I think that a feature for the main search bar, where the user can write something like:

"somephrasetosearch" votes:deletion

and the above search should list all of the posts that the user voted to delete and that contains the phrase somephrasetosearch.

Similarly, the following search:

"somephrasetosearch" votes:closure

should list all the posts that the user voted to be closed and that contains the phrase somephrasetosearch.

This will greatly reduce the manual look up(effort, time etc) that I currently have to do for looking up old posts that I voted for and that contains a specific phrase.

Note that I don't want to use a SEDE query and instead want this to be incorporated in the main search bar of the site.

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    Related (some opposite): Is there a way to search for questions I haven't voted to close?
    – starball
    Commented Mar 31, 2023 at 16:42
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    What problem exactly are you trying to solve here? So you find a question and you think it's similar to some other bad question that you remember... and why will it be helpful to find the other bad question? If you think both are duplicates, then what you need to be able to find easily is the canonical. On the other hand, if you want to keep track of questions you voted on, to see if they actually got closed/deleted, it will be easier to do that manually, probably. Either way, I recommend taking advantage of your personal Saves.
    – Karl Knechtel
    Commented Apr 1, 2023 at 3:15

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Another use-case I could see for myself:

I want to find questions I have close voted where the close review expired without action.

The close vote would remain but it is longer reviewable. Since I tend to cast close votes on new questions, a query like votes:closure created:..4d closed:no would find all posts which are not closed and are over 4 days old which is is how long it takes for the close review to expire. More precisely it is 4 days after the last close votes but very often mine happens to be last. (If needed, I can manually check the timeline them for the review expiry, in case I voted to close later).

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