Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question as off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ.
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Why is there an asterisk next to the close vote total? E.g. Close (1*) [duplicate]
I just noticed that there's now an asterisk next to the close vote totals. What does it mean?
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Staging Ground review allows choosing both "upvote when posted on main site" and "vote as off-topic" at the same time
Please refer to the below screenshot:
While reviewing a question in Staging Ground, the user interface allows the reviewer to 'upvote when posted on main site' even though the reviewer is voting as ...
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How to deal with extremely out of date questions [duplicate]
I recently was searching around to see if there had been any discussion on what I thought was a strange "feature" of django, and my DuckDuckGo query gave as the first result this question. ...
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"Vote as duplicate" remains available even after I "Vote[d] as off-topic", but then it fails at the last step of voting
I just voted a non-programming question as off-topic but when I looked up the resolution I realized that the target, while also being off-topic, is available on Stack Overflow, so I wen't back to the ...
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Why was the threshold to mark an SG post as off-topic/duplicate changed from 2 to 3? Can it be changed back?
The Staging Ground's environment is a bit different. Typically, two users can together vote a question as being off-topic or as a duplicate. This means that reviewers can expediently handle questions ...
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Started bounty on someone else's interesting question, then question has been closed before end of bounty
I have found this interesting question (I am not the author) : Cut a video in between key frames without re-encoding the full video using ffpmeg?.
It was quite upvoted, which shows interest by other ...
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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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Vote option says I can't vote to close after retracting my vote, but I didn't retract my vote [duplicate]
I voted to close this question because it's not about programming.
It was re-opened.
The question is still not about programming and I would like to vote to close it, but when I try, it says "You ...
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Someone downvotes and votes to close my questions [closed]
All my last questions on SO with tag java were downvoted and voted to close as "Needs details or clarity". Always similar behavior: downvote + close "Needs details or clarity".
I ...
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Are there valid reasons for the "Other" close reason in the Staging Ground?
In the Staging Ground, I sometimes see questionable votes as off-topic (like using pretty much any of the close reasons in cases when "Requires Major Changes" would be more appropriate).
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Can't dupe hammer question because I added a tag, but I could have done it _before_ the edit
Convert raw string (having escape characters) to unicode/utf8 string
Convert "\x" escaped string into readable string in python
When voting to close 1) as duplicate of 2), the system didn't ...
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How should I flag "what does this code do" questions? [duplicate]
A user posted a question asking, "What does this code do?" (along with a code snippet). There was nothing in the question to indicate that the user did any research or otherwise exerted any ...
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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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What can we do when a close-reason requires an explanation?
Suppose you have this question:
Which is better: X or Y?
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What is the best way to do Z?
You could close it using the "opinion-based" close-reason. However, this is not very helpful for ...
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Questions with three close/delete votes are STILL not closed or deleted
I saw this question: Multiple questions with three close votes are still open or three delete votes aren't deleted
I also saw that the question was marked as status-completed, so the staff ...
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