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Tagged with feature-request vote-to-close
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Can only contributors of particular tag be allowed to vote or close a question [duplicate]
I have observed several times where questions which are specific to a particular tags being vote down or closed yet these questions are clear to contributors of that tag.
E.g. why should someone be ...
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Warning about no more close votes should be on 'close' button
This post is only slightly related to this one, and I am aware of the vote count at the bottom right corner of the close window.
And, while I completely agree that disabling or hiding the 'close' ...
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Drop vote-to-migrate threshold to 2 of the 3 VTC's?
As @Shog9 mentioned when originally implementing 3-vote-close:
[Previously], migrating a question to another site require[d] that 4 of the 5 votes all agree that the question should be migrated to a ...
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Closing a question for lack of clarity or focus or objectivity should require elaboration from the closer
I see a lot of questions about, "Why was this issue closed for lack of clarity/focus/opinion-based?" I'd like to propose something that could preemptively answer these questions before they'...
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Add option to search for posts that were voted to be deleted, closed, etc by the user
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 ...
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"List of close voters is only viewable by users with the close/reopen votes privilege" notice is misleading
On closed questions, this message is shown to users with the close/reopen votes privilege (except for the asker):
The list of close voters, however, is viewable by anyone, including anonymous users. ...
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Let gold badge holders assign a duplicate, after already voting to close
If a gold badge holder for a tag votes to close a question normally, and then later discovers a duplicate of it, can they be allowed to "cast a second close vote" as a duplicate? In the &...
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Fix timeout for the "You may only open the close dialog every 3 seconds" notification
Several of the interactions with the site are rate-limited and will bring up a warning notice if you do them repeatedly. For example, you can only flag comments every 3 seconds.
Typically, these ...
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Disable Close votes if no more votes possible
If I don't have any more votes to close a question, the dialog should be disabled or at least show the information more visible.
At the moment I can browse through the windows, write a text why I want ...
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Adding "lack of effort" as a close vote reason [duplicate]
I frequently come across SO questions that have code snippets just copy/pasted from poor online sites and asking what is the problem with that code and why it doesn't work.
The main problem with these ...
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Enhance close and delete links [duplicate]
While we are currently running A/B testing on button styling for vote arrows, I am wondering whether the Close and Delete links on posts could also be enhanced in terms of UX.
Here is how the Close ...
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Chat with close voters about question closure
Read through the following scenario to see why I think being able to chat with the reviewing users of an issue is crucial:
Scenario
A question I posted recently (this one) was closed for needing to be ...
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Please add "tutorials" back to the off-site close reason text
The old close reason text for the off-topic close reason of 'off-site resources' used to explicitly enumerate "tutorial" in the list of examples of what wasn't allowed:
Unfortunately, the ...
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Reopen votes aging time isn't directly mentioned in the help center
Quote from cast close and reopen votes:
Close votes age away harmlessly if the threshold is not reached after several days. If the question has at least 100 views, close votes will age away after 4 ...
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Allow voting to close questions as duplicate of Articles
As far as I understand Articles are official "how-to" guides and as such represent and can serve as canonical duplicate targets.
Allow voting to close questions as duplicate of Articles.
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