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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Exact duplicate doesn't require answer but claims one exists
This question was (rightly) closed as an exact duplicate: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1717381. (If I'm not mistaken, only moderators can do that.) The message at the top differs from the ...
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Do we need a separate close-reason for not showing your own effort? [duplicate]
One of the most prominent reasons why questions are closed is the fact that people are posting e.g. home work excercises without any additional info on where they are struck, and what they tried.
So ...
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Can one avoid gold badge superpowers by temporarily removing tags?
As described here, earning a gold tag badge has the side effect that one's votes to close questions in the tag as duplicates become immediately binding instead of going through the usual voting ...
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An auto-comment on first questions that motivates sharing doubts and thoughts
Very often I see a user's first question getting down-voted and eventually it ends up being closed.
Usually I find this to be too rough of a treatment, as the user is not accustomed to the site. I ...
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What to do with a “check/simplify my proof” type question?
After doing reading on the meta I have come to realise that asking for a verification of a proof is not necessarily a good idea. Among other reasons, it has a fair chance to be left without an answer. ...
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How should one handle posts offering money?
Sometimes OP will be so desperate (or so unfamiliar with the site) that s/he offers money (or at least says s/he does) in order to get an answer.
The one time I've seen someone act on it (not because ...
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Is it important that a question is closed for the correct reasons?
I've recently gotten the privilege to close-vote and I'm uncertain about one aspect of it. It'll be easier if I describe it through an example:
Say I'm reviewing close votes and I come across a ...
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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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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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Serial close votes on pronunciation questions
I have noticed that since, an hour ago, I asked for my question on how to read a formula aloud to be reopened ( http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/22189/why-is-my-question-on-hold ) at least ...
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Opposing `vote to close`
I see an almost duplicate here, but the emphasis seems to be on retracting. There is a vote to close option, but (in the interests of democracy ;)) is there an ...
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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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Unfounded multiple downvotes and close requests
I have asked a quite legitimate question.
After a day I myself given an answer.
Without any reason both the question and the answer were voted down and there are close and delete requests.
I do not ...
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Is “Don't bother voting to close a sufficiently downvoted question” good advice?
...provided there aren't any close votes already, of course.
It's no secret the close review queue has been pretty large lately (see here, for instance). It's sitting at 110 questions, as I write this ...
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Mjölnir malfunction
I saw a question which was wrongfully tagged with several irrelevant tags, one of which is the general-topology in which I have closure superpowers. I retagged the question as elementary-set-theory in ...
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Why this type of questions are voted to be closed?
I recently asked a question which is desiring a learning map for the self-study of a subject in mathematics. In my opinion, it is not really seeking personal advice but it was voted by the others to ...
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Is it against the rules to ask about a different proof for a proposition which has already been asked?
My question was marked as a duplicate by Did. I was trying to use a different proof involving continuity of measure and monotone convergence theorem for a question I asked before. I specified in the ...
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Flagging vs. close issue
I have read:
https://meta.superuser.com/questions/3154/how-should-my-flagging-change-when-i-gain-the-ability-to-vote-to-close
I haven't earned my Marshall badge yet, and:
https://math.stackexchange....
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Why are actuarial science questions considered off topic?
I asked a question here which was about the percentile breakdown of global life expectancy. While this question does certainly pertain to topics not related to mathematics, it is very specifically ...
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An older question was closed as a duplicate of a newer one
I have asked Extremals of functional $J = \int_{a}^{b} F(x, y, y^{'})$ question on December 21st 2013..
Now comes another question An MCQ for finding the extremal of the functional $J = \int_{a}^{...
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Is the close vote queue backlogged?
Pretty much every day I go through all of my 20 close vote reviews. So I am wondering:
How many items are in the close vote queue?
How many items have been in the queue over the past few weeks or ...
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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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What is the difference between voting to close as a duplicate and flagging as a duplicate?
I am aware that to flag you only need 15 reputation points. Only users with 3k+ reputation can cast votes.
If a post is flagged as duplicate, what happens then? In particular, what is different from ...
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Bug in the “History” tab of “Close votes”?
1) I am presented with a question submitted for closure review.
2) I open the link in another browser tab, in order to also read the answers given there and have a better understanding of the issue.
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How to proceed when a bad question floods the site?
Math.SE has recently been flooded by the continued posting and re-posting of an extremely bad question.
I flagged the question (once), and voted to close all that came after it. But I don't think it ...
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Why is one's reason for voting to close being misrepresented? [duplicate]
I voted to close a question because it had been asked before, and I ticked the appropriate box for this. But then my name came up on a list of people who had voted to close the question because it was ...
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Closing a close votes review loophole
A certain user has commented that they make use of a loophole: the user skips all of the questions in the close vote review queue, but opens the questions in a separate tab/window and votes to vote to ...
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Should we close/lock old questions with many answers at some point?
From time to time you see someone posting yet another answer to very old questions which have many answers. It is almost always the case that the newly added answer is in fact a duplicate or a ...
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Intended use of “seeking personal advice” close reason
In case you missed it, there's a new close reason:
Seeking personal advice. Questions about choosing a course, academic program, career path, etc. are off-topic. Such questions should be directed ...
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Clarification of what should be closed as a duplicate [duplicate]
Until today the word "duplicate" was clear to me, or so I thought, but I have just been confronted with the following situation: there is a question A from 2011 (with an accepted answer) and one other,...
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How many questions get closed, and how often are they edited or reopened?
How many questions on Mathematics SE got closed during the last 90 days? For what reasons? How many of the closed questions were edited or reopened?
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What if a question is both off-topic and unclear what you are asking?
I often see a question in the reopen queue that was closed as unclear what you are asking, but was also lacking context.
If the OP edits the unclear what you are asking part, and it enters the ...
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“marked as duplicate” by community?
A few minutes ago I flagged this question as a duplicate of an earlier one; when I came back to it, it showed as having been "marked as duplicate by Steven Stadnicki, Community". I've never seen the ...
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Unanswered proof verification questions
I've seen many related questions including:
Best way of asking "check my proof" questions
What to do with a "check/simplify my proof" type question?
What Do We Do About Comment-...
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spurious interaction between close votes for different reasons
This question had two close votes with reason "off-topic because ... missing details". I mistook it for a duplicate (of this question) and voted to close it for that reason, unaware that I'm now able ...
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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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Why is a question needing more details called “off-topic”?
When voting to close, under "off-topic" we have
This question is missing context or other details: Please improve the question by providing additional context, which ideally includes your thoughts ...
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What is the purpose of the “Marshal” badge?
A user will get the casting close vote privilege after 3k reputation. According to this post, voting for close is prior to flagging. It is almost impossible to flag 500 times before reaching 3k ...
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Reconsidering custom close reasons on Math.SE
In the discussion this meta thread it was discovered, that the current custom close reason missing context or other details is much less specific than the other close reasons.
The answer to what is ...
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How to deal with just-google-it questions?
This post was reworked by me to more accurately convey my point. This may have rendered some comments obsolete.
This question has a follow-up here.
The problem
There are quite a few questions wich ...
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When a moderator closes a question, do they consult with the other moderators first?
Shortly after π-day 2015 was first posted, it was closed by Daniel Fischer, a moderator, as “too broad”. Normally five users’ votes are required to close a question, but when a moderator votes to ...
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Answering questions with a hint
Scenario: someone asks: "Let such-and-such. How do I prove X?". I answer "Hint: because blah, blah, blah, all you have to prove is Y". Their response is to ask a new question: "Let such-and-such. How ...
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Should questions asking to prove false claims be downvoted or closed?
There is this question where the poster asked for helping proving a claim that in general is not true. Many people gave counterexamples to the claim. The question received downvotes as well. Later ...
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Too quick to close
A new user posted an unclear question, Proving that $\dim(\mathrm{span}({I_n,A,A^2,...})) \leq n$ Within an hour, it got closed.
That's exactly what ought to happen --- on MathOverflow, where one ...
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Can't flag a duplicates a second time. What should be done on my end
A while ago I noticed a question was a duplicate and so marked it as one using the flagging option. The other question had recently received an answer and I am pretty sure I up voted it, but I may ...
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Proof Verification of Open Problems
Over the past few days, I've noticed several proof verification questions regarding open problems. On one, quid left the comment:
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it asks for ...
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Who's digging up dirt in the close queue?
The close queue contains an extremely large number of old, answered (accepted) and downvoted questions.
Even if these questions should have been closed, some of them now have a good answer worth ...
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Why was this on-topic question unilaterally closed and migrated by a moderator?
This question on context-free and regular grammars was unilaterally closed as off-topic and migrated to cs.stackexchange.com by one of the moderators; I should like to know why. We have a long history ...
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Why close old questions with accepted answers using the “no context” reason?
Recently, I have noticed there is an increasing number of closings (or at least, close votes) on questions like this one. That is, archaic questions with accepted answers, which do not match the "...
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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 ...
