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Tagged with feature-request vote-to-close
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Flagging migration should include more options
I have encountered numerous questions in with the sprite-kit tag such as:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23215645/should-i-use-sprite-kit-for-a-simple-game-like-flappy-bird-or-games-that-simpler
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More effective closing / downvoting of junk questions to help with the signal-noise ratio?
Signal vs Noise
I find that when a question warrants a close vote, it usually violates a number of rules, sometimes a majority of the rules, and it is hard to decide which is the most appropriate.
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user177800
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Enough fuzzying: let's let everything into the close queue and age out questions that don't reach a threshold
We've just about hit equilibrium here: Fuzzy the number of questions in the close review queue, a dopamine for the shutterers
The number of questions in the queue is falling slowly, but I don't think ...
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Reduce the number of votes required to close a question to 4 [duplicate]
Related (from 2009): Now that there is a League of Super Heroes should the number of votes required to close/move be reduced?
Also very related (but not identical): Why are 5 close votes required?
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Why can't we change our close-vote reason?
This answer does a fair enough job explaining why you can't vote-to-close on a question once you've retracted a close vote. But I'm curious, why can't I change my close-vote reason without ...
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We need more close votes!
I run out of close votes a lot. In fact, in almost any given day in which I actively participate, I use up all of my close votes! And I am really, in the grand scheme of things, not a very active user ...
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Fuzzy the number of questions in the close review queue, a dopamine for the shutterers
Users are freaking out over the number of questions with close votes. More so when they look at the review queue and have to grab a newspaper to fan themselves as they do declare that the high number ...
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Provide "Not enough effort" as a new close reason
It's quite clear by now, I am not any longer afraid to ask for it officially; all recent highly visited and discussed posts that the community demands a new close reason.
New, because it has never ...
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Give high-rep users extra weight on close votes
As a person's commitment to the community increases, I think we should make it possible for high-reputation users to fast-track the closure of certain questions. See here for some of my rationale.
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Could: "Possible duplicate of.." be given prominence for answering users?
Scenario:
User 1 asks a question
User 2 votes to close as duplicate
User 3 ignores the comment/dupe link and answers
Other than the link in the comments, users that answer are not directed in any ...
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Auto-comment close votes for all close reasons
I propose auto-comments for voting to close for any close reason.
(Read the parts in bold for a longer "TL;DR")
More details:
Whenever someone votes to close with a reason someone hasn't already ...
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Show my close vote
Going through my old close votes, I noticed the following:
If I have cast an off-topic close vote, I cannot see what that vote was, as I cannot navigate to the off-topic section as I would be able to ...
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Send notification when question is closed or deleted
By chance I found out that an old question of mine has been deleted. Given that it was very old and highly upvoted, I didn’t lose any reputation and—according to current standards—it was indeed off ...
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Allow "keep open" voting outside review queue
The "close votes" queue contains a lot of questions that have some close votes, but not enough to close them.
Maybe some of them could be removed from the queue by adding a "keep open" option to ...
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Edit duplicate closure target after close vote has been cast
Sometimes a question is clarified ( rarely ) after a duplicate closure, and the clarification is still a duplicate just of a different question.
A more common case is sometimes you copy paste the ...
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