Questions tagged [closing]
The process by which users can vote a question closed if it is off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ.
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Please help me improve post closed too broad/unfocused even after it was edited to have only 1 question [duplicate]
Please help me improve a question closed for too broad/unfocused even after it was edited to have only 1 question: Whether or not a (cyclic and thus Abelian) group $\mathbb Z_{p^m}$ (prime power) is ...
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How to correct a duplicate flag?
I initially flagged this question as a duplicate of another question, but then realized the other question was not exactly a duplicate. I then found a better (exact) duplicate, and tried to correct ...
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Is there anything to improve in this post which is about ambiguity in question about field axioms?
Can you talk about (the rest of the) field axioms when the operations are not closed?
Check out this deleted post if you want if you can: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4256287/generalising-...
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Why are clumsily formulated questions downvoted & closed so much?
Regularly, I feel that a significant part of the community closes or downvotes question because they don't fit neatly into the category of "well-presented question", while the question is ...
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Hide reputation and badges
The greatest tension in this website is that StackExchange is designed to be "gamified", rewarding users who answer questions well with little positive reinforcements that they helped people....
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Non-experts closing questions
I have recently noticed what, to me, is a pretty irking trend in the tag I contribute to most often (algebraic geometry). It seems to me that there is a contingent of 'serial closers' who insist on ...
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Why not allow closing of bountied question by normal users when they are in bounty stages?
Recently there have been a lot of questions which are bountied but PSQ (Problem Statement Question). Here is one, another one although now closed, not a bounty not but once was and many more which one ...
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Why is it allowed for users to delete questions that others created?
I opened a question and was marked as duplicate.
But what I find surprising is that some users actually deleted my question!
Why is this allowed? From my perspective the linked question does not ...
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Why this question isn't closed?
Invers laplace tranformation
I want to ask why this question isn't closed even though the user has not shown any work. I flagged this post 10 days before but still no action. Why is it so? I know many ...
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Hot keys in close vote review queue
When I am in the review queue, if I click to close a question, I have to select an option on a pop up screen, press a button and then again select an option and press a button again for another screen....
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What's the point of closing a question after it has accepted answers?
Like this: What's the value of $\int_{-\infty}^\infty{\frac {1}{x}}\sin \left({\frac {1}{x^{3}}}\right)dx$?
Whether it is closed or not, the result is already obtained, so what the closure is ...
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Closing of a question about an unexpected behavior of a math software
Compare these two questions.
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Why is there a difference between MATLAB and manual calculation for eigenvectors
Linear Programming in R using lpSolve dismisses ...
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Advice on closing questions as duplicates
In a very recent question the OP had made considerable amount of progress in proving an inequality. The OP was only left to prove the inequality $x^2y+y^2z+z^2x\le \frac{4}{27}$. Myself knowing that ...
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How to flag a question that asks multiple duplicated questions?
How can I close Suggestions for a good statistics book and a calculus book? as duplications both What are the recommended textbooks for introductory calculus? and Recommend a statistics fundamentals ...
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Is there a convention for whether or not you should vote to close old questions?
This post from 2014 was closed today. I saw it in the 'close votes' queue, but skipped it because I don't know what the convention is (if any) for posts that are so old. If that post was posted ...
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Why was my duplicate and deleted post reopened and undeleted?
My question was correctly closed as a duplicate of this one.
I deleted the question after it was closed, but 7 hours after (13 minutes ago at the time of writing), the post was reopened and undeleted ...
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Allow question to be closed for low effort
I do like helping people out on exercises but I see way too many questions with little to no effort in trying to solve. I think these people are just asking to get their assignments done. I don't ...
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Why was this question "returned" to another SE site?
This is a question about this post. The post was originally from the Mathematica SE site and was migrated to MSE (math SE) because the underlying question is one of mathematics rather than one of ...
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What is exactly "This question doesn’t meet a Mathematics Stack Exchange guideline."
I have seen many question that has been up-voted and answered very nicely but it has been voted to close 2 times with this reason:
This question doesn’t meet a Mathematics Stack Exchange guideline.
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Are askers notified of close votes on a question they've asked?
If I encounter a question that is, for example, missing context, so I give it a close vote accordingly, is the poster notified? Or should I copy the relevant blurb:
Please provide additional context, ...
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Is there a functioning tracker for the number of questions that need review in the close queue?
Recently, the number of items that need review in the close queue stood at $10$, nearly into the single digits. Here is a screenshot:
I was curious and searched for a way to track the number of ...
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Closing question when asking an advice
So, recently I asked on the main Mathematics site about interesting subjects for my thesis. And it was closed as opinion-based.
Btw this is my question:
My question
Then, I tried to looking for ...
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Notifications to followers of a question about its status updates (closed / open)
In my opinion, one of the most important functions of following a question should be to notify users its status updates. For example, say I encountered a question in the close vote review queue that I ...
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Why is the number of required close votes constant?
How do high traffic questions survive without any system in place to prevent them from being closed too easily? It seems strange to me that the number of votes required to close a question is a ...
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Is context significant in determining if a question is a duplicate?
I was looking at a pair of questions:
Sum of random numbers and e constant
And
Expected number of (0,1) distributed continuous random variables required to sum upto 1
The rules of Math ...
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How to choose the correct reason for closing a question
I recently made it to $3,000$ reputation and earned the "Cast close & reopen votes" privilege. I am a bit confused on how I would choose the correct reason when closing a question.
As I am sure ...
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User answering poor question while also voting to close
Context
Tonight I witnessed conduct from a reputable user that I find outrageous. I won’t name names, but as the individual’s identity could be determined by tracing my activity anyways, I’ll include ...
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Can we please stop voting to close a question just because the question is short?
I have seen many times that somebody voted to close short questions (and probably downvoted the questions as well), even though the OP made clear that there had been good attempts. This thread is the ...
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New changes to close reasons
Not long ago, we had to adapt to the circumstances at hand regarding the changes to how close reasons were displayed. You can read more about this here.
We now have other changes. A good place to ...
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Are questions about ideas in preprints off-topic?
Another note: (Since the first one wasn’t heeded...) OK, so the question was closed again. My appeal below was to both sides of the issue, so even though five people sought fit to do otherwise, ...
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How to tell a user that his/her actions are inappropriate (and should I)
Recently one of my questions got a downvote and was flagged for closure as unclear. This was an unpleasant surprise, since I saw nothing wrong with the question; moreover, no comments were made about ...
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How many times we need to ask about closing quick questions of ✩new users✩ so that something is done about it?
I've searched old questions about the very short time for closing a question and unfortunately there are a lot.
I didn't get all of them (IIRC there was like 10 other pages to check them all) but I ...
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Can you please give new users some time to breathe?
I have just logged in on math.stack and I immediately see
Can you guys please provide the answer? [closed]
and then I clicked and I realized that OP asked the question 5 minutes ago
see
Is that ...
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Engage with people from the fringes - or not?
I am quite tempted to ask this question because I have committed this a few times recently (e.g. Is this a useful concept in trying to solve the Riemann Hypothesis? Or am I still to naïve? , Why ...
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More specific feedback to OP upon voting to close
Although I have been with the wider StackExchange community for a number of years, I still consider myself inexperienced when writing posts on math.SE. Today, for the first time, a question I posted ...
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New recommended close reason for questions that are "missing context"
Recently, the software has been changed regarding how the closing reasons are displayed for people. If you don't have close-vote privileges or you are not OP, this is how it is displayed:
For ...
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Sitewide update of closing GUI?
I was reviewing some questions when I noticed some GUI/text changes.
Has there been any update to the site I'm not aware of? Where can I read more about what changed?
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This question has been deleted...
Not sure how many have the same experience...
After writing a llllong answer, just shortly before clicking on "Post Your Answer", the OP deleted the question for whatever reason, and no more answers ...
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We have three question pairs closed as the dupes of each other
Digging in the SEDE, I've found 3 question pairs being each other's dupe. Namely:
this and this,
this and this,
and this and this.
Today we can't close a question as a dupe, if it would create such ...
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"Strategy" for voting to close
I have recently cleared 3,000 rep, so I am new to casting close votes. I am ready and eager to use my power for good! But I'm struck by the fact that there seem to be 40+ polls in the queue around ...
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Robotic comments. [duplicate]
Many times I have seen a question put on hold where the stated reason has no relation to the question. It looks like a formula statement.
"" put on hold as off-topic by StubbornAtom, Leucippus, ...
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Why does it take 5 close votes, to close a question?
I had a similar question a few days ago.
There I was banned from review queues, because I seem to disagree on close votes to much.
I promised to never review again, but I made a little experiment and ...
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Why was this duplicate question deleted?
When does a function NOT have an antiderivative?
This question was closed as a duplicate. I agree that the question was a duplicate (although I would have also added a second link, one to some post ...
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Kafkaesque question closure(s)
This question seems about to be closed (4 votes currently), because it is (supposedly) "not about math as defined in the help center."
Can anyone explain this to me (if there is an explanation)? I ...
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Is there a way to contact a person who voted to close a question
I typically put 20-30 minutes into each of my questions to make sure they are as clear possible.
Someone recently voted to close my question because they felt the question wasn’t clear and didn’t ...
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Why there are still so many opinion based questions? Should they be closed?
One of the reasons that we delete questions at math.stackexchange is because the answer is primarily opinion based. However, my observation is that there are still many such questions; they are not ...
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Where's the dupe in close review?
In close reviews, a post flagged as a duplicate and the claimed duplicate target are rendered as tabbed pages so that reviewer can compare them without leaving the page. However, the tabbed pane is ...
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Close reason: "lack of research effort"
The custom off topic close reason is very rarely applied for the reason that the words actually say and is basically used as a catch-all close reason, even when something like "unclear what you're ...
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Useful vague question closed?
This question
What does a $\sigma$-field have to do with foundations of probability theory?
was closed as too broad. In the strict sense that's true: there is no precisely stated problem to be ...
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What should be the role of *Welcome to MSE*?
When a constant stream of new users come to MSE and repeatedly flout policy, deluge the site with bad questions, write them as PSQs, post images instead of MathJax, then get them serially downvoted, ...
