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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When closing question for lack of effort, leave a comment to OP explaining what to do
Recently there was an extensive discussion about closing the questions containing only the problem statement: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/9201/proposal-discourage-questions-that-are-...
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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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Help me find an original for questions like “Why $(-1)^{ab} \ne [(-1)^a]^b$ when $a, b, \in \Bbb R$?”
There are many questions that boil down to
"why is it not true that $(-1)^{ab} = [(-1)^a]^b$ (or $z^{ab} = (z^a)^b$) for $z \in \Bbb C$ and $a, b \in \Bbb R$ (or $\Bbb C$)?"
and, respectively,
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Should “missing context” be under “off topic?”
Has anyone else has wondered why the "missing context" close reason is labeled under "off topic?" After all, here's the description for "off topic" close reasons in general:
Off topic: This ...
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Stop the decay of closing votes when a bounty is set
Some week or so ago I answered a question, after some comments with the OP it became my suspicion that the question was not made in good faith, but rather to "confirm that they are correct", rather ...
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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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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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Closing as duplicates for migrated questions.
This is mostly an announcement in case anyone wondered what happened to these two questions:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/98121
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/98162
Question 2 ...
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Changing reason for close votes
I accidentally retracted my close vote on this question.
How can I (have this) reset?
Also, I think there should be a grace period (say 5 minutes, like with comment editing) for that, since the error ...
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Does voting to leave open do anything or is it like the 'close door' button on an elevator?
I enjoy voting to leave open a question when the OP has clearly modified their original post or when it seems like others are bullying the OP. But I don't see how it is at all different from "Skip", ...
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Edited-and-Reopened Questions Should Ping Downvoters
A somewhat common pattern on this site seems to be that a new user will post a poor question, receive a bunch of downvotes and have their question closed. If we're lucky, they'll (or someone) improve ...
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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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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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How could the “Properties of 2015” question be on-topic?
The question Is there something special about 2015? has just popped on the reopen queue. Although I agree that it is not right for Math.SE as it is (too broad and it inherently doesn't have a correct ...
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Can you retract reopen votes?
I recently, for a miss-guided reason (it is complicated, but my logic was in error) clicked to re-open a meta question which I believe should be left closed. I immediately tried to retract my vote, ...
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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 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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What to do with: “You may only load the closed dialog every 3 seconds”
If I try to close a question then the following text appears:
"You may only load the closed dialog every 3 seconds"
and closing is not possible.
I encounter this problem not on my own computer.
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Moderators: please straighten out loop in “duplicate of” graph
Recently a user asked Is "applying similar operations from left to right" a convention or a rule that forces us to mark one answer wrong? , which is a duplicate of 6/2*(1+2) is 1 or 9?; they ...
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When using 'Close' through “Tools”, system does not appear to register vote
When you use the 'Review', 'Tools', it will sometimes have a 'Close' option if someone flagged it as a duplicate.
When you use this 'Close', it displays a message that it counted your close vote, but ...
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Post closed as (whatever) by *everyone*?
I recently cast a fifth and final close vote. I voted to close as "unclear", but the other four went for "too broad". Although I do not disagree that the post was too broad, I am slightly miffed that ...
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On deleting vs. closing duplicate questions.
Recently a question was deleted by the OP after it was pointed out in comments that it was a duplicate. I was in the process of composing an answer, but I was not able to post it when I finished since ...
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How can I share interesting problems I know the answer to without having my question closed for lack of context?
I've run across a few fun problems I want to share. Some are just fun problems with quick/clever answers. I want to share them on here, but I don't really know how to do so without people (rightfully) ...
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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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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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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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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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Why not flag questions because they're homework?
During last days a lot of people have sent so many questions that are like homework, for example:
this
this
this
this
this
this
and basically they don't make any effort to show what they have tried. ...
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Closure as duplicate navigating in a circle
I was reviewing the close votes today when I came across this question , for identification purpose, lets call this $\mathbf{A}$. Someone had given it a close vote, marking it a duplicate of this ...
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Why is my question getting downvotes, an unclear vote but no explanations? How can I improve this question?
The question: Show the equivalence of these definitions of independence of random variables
Two books give two different definitions of independence of random variables, and I am trying to show that ...
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GRE advice/resource questions
Why is this
GRE Subject Test - Past Papers, Books, Advice
off-topic but
that
recommending books for GRE math subject test
on-topic?
Edit: How could the former question be improved to become on-topic/...
