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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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, ...
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Should a diamond moderator having voted to close a question, delete counterarguments from that question's comments?
Like many people with an interest in mathematics right now, I want to get a deeper understanding where Atiyah's proof of Riemann Hypothesis might fall down. I searched and found no such question here ...
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Failed migration should result in a corresponding notice [duplicate]
I provided the fifth vote to close this question as off topic because it belongs on http://physics.stackexchange.com. From previous cases, I was expecting this to cause the question to be migrated to ...
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Premature close and down votes - how can we stop this? (+ my suggestion)
While I haven't been a part of MSE for too long, in my time I have been fairly active and seen a wide variety of questions. Obviously, the most common of these question have been homework-style ...
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Should I close my question if I found an answer? [duplicate]
I've asked a question and then with the help of commenters I've found the answer. Should I close it/post the answer by myself or wait for other to post an answer?
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On Hold/Closed for broad or unclear, Then edited, then…
Kinda dumb/n00b/challenging conventional wisdom question, but what is the procedure for questions that are on hold or closed for being broad or unclear and then edited to hopefully become less broad ...
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What is the problem with this post? [closed]
I asked this question: How to find the fraction of integers with the smallest denominator matching an interval?
Maybe you looked over something?
What "context or other details" are missing?
Why ...
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Does the overall closing questions policy too procrastinating? [closed]
I find that when asking e.g. slightly cunning DEs, some corps will make those questions close quite quickly, but reopening those questions are often very difficult, influence greatly the image of MSE ...
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Feature request: close reason “unresponsiveness”.
The problem: Sometimes, an user begins acting adversarially and is unresponsive to improvement of their post. This is bad behaviour in general and part of the community feels urged to address it.
We ...
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Why is the reason for the down and close vote for this question?
Closed and reopened
I'm member of this site for almost 3 years, and I cannot understand why this question takes one down vote and 4 close votes. Can someone who can understand the reason for this ...
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What is the record for the fastest close vote, and which question achieved this accolade?
What is the record for the fastest close vote, and which question achieved this accolade?
I wondered if somebody has access to this data and I was curious about the distribution around the shorter ...
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What to do with a question that is no longer relevant?
Refer to this question I asked a little while ago.
I thought I spotted a mistake in a textbook, but actually I made a mistake myself when I tried to write a counterexample. There is no longer a ...
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closing weak questions
I'm trying to do my part clearing the close vote queue. Here's one with an accepted answer:
Vector addition of opposing vectors
It deserves to be closed since it shows no work. It's unlikely to be ...
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Duplicate question notice checks closed duplicate for answers instead of target
In March 2016, Exact duplicate doesn't require answer but claims one exists was implemented, which purported to show a different notice if the duplicate target has had no answers.
However, for ...
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How can we, as a community, reduce some of the tension on the site?
It feels like there's a lot of tension on this site, broadly about closing/downvoting/deleting questions. I am quite prolific in closing/downvoting/deleting questions myself because well...there's a ...
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Closing a question because it contains an error
I asked a short time ago whether there is a policy the following: If a question contains a mathematical error that could be pointed out in a posted answer, or is ill-formulated for reasons that could ...
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Closed vote invalidated before triggering review
I recently voted to closed several questions as duplicates: 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Somehow they have different fate: and first and the fourth one got into the review queue, and the fourth closed (by a gold-...
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Five close votes is not enough to close a question?
I voted to close a question in a Low Quality Post review. There are more than five users who voted to close in the review, but why is it open?
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Is it okay to close a question due to bad/non-cooperative behaviour of OP?
Suppose, there is a question, which follows the guidelines for asking a question on this site. But, OP aren't being cooperative and nice in the comment section. Someone flags those comments, all the ...
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Why do even high reputation users do not pay attention on close votes? [duplicate]
Recently, I have seen high reputation users, and top-reviewers (Such as amWhy, Shailesh etc.) voting for closing of questions, just out of the way. See this question. This is a nice question IMHO. It ...
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Voting to close after someone answered
I took 15 minutes to write an answer, nobody comments, asks for precision, instead they do vote to close because "it is unclear" ?
I don't understand this attitude. I believe my answer explains in ...
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What context was this question missing?
Why does $n = \lceil 1/\sqrt{x-1}\rceil+1 $ imply that $\frac{1}{n^2} < x-1$?
Since this clearly doesn't require any complex 'context', the only reason I can think of for it getting closed is ...
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Closing a question with a bounty [duplicate]
This is more of a thought experiment than anything, but what happens if a question is closed when there is an active bounty?
The "help" page on closed questions says nothing about bounties, and the "...
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The overeager use of the “unclear what you're asking” close reason [closed]
To my mind, the only reasons to close questions at all are to:
Express the official policy on what questions are acceptable, in other words, quality control. We don't want to accumulate lots of ...
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Which actions by moderators cannot be reversed by community?
There are some actions where a vote from moderator has immediate effect (i.e., there is no need for votes from other users). This is the case for closing and reopening posts. However, in these cases ...
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Why do we keep meta questions with lots of downvotes open?
I was recently told that meta questions should not be closed because you disagree with them. I then found
Downvoting vs voting to close on Meta
And have since removed my vote to close.
However, I ...
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Is the review queue incomplete as a list of questions that someone has voted to close?
I find a question bearing two tags and having two votes to close it.
I go to the review queue and "filter" the search to include only questions bearing those two tags. The queue turns out to be short,...
