Timeline for Please, can we stop closing questions before the OP had a chance to react?
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| Apr 25, 2017 at 21:01 | comment | added | Jason C | Well, I use "enforce" very loosely. Thing is, I'm also against adopting a policy because it fits the tools in spirit, but in reality, users tend to operate within the constraints of the tools. The most effective path forward, then, is to push to change the tools, and SE does respond to that sort of thing, quite well in fact, but the basis must be a compelling argument, which means identifying the real issues and then identifying how the tools contribute to those issues. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 20:54 | comment | added | Paul Stanley | I'm not interested in "enforcing" anything and I pretty much deprecate that language. I'm certainly against adopting a policy because it fits the tools I happen to have. That's back to front. Anyway, if questions don't get prematurely flagged/proposed for closure, they won't get queued. If they slip into oblivion unclosed, I doubt it matters. | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 19:57 | comment | added | Jason C | (Also it's not realistic to expect people to check the ages of posts in the review queue then skip ones > 48 hours, which also removes it from their queue forever so if they didn't bookmark it before skipping and check back 2 days later, the high level systemic effect is a possibly large % loss of overall reviewers. Nobody's going to do that [or, more accurately, at least 4 people won't do that]). | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 19:54 | comment | added | Jason C | You cannot realistically enforce a 48 hour policy, even by posting it on meta, mostly because most users don't read meta (only 4% of your active main users have visited meta in the past 2 weeks) and because the workflow for this is not feasible (requires bookmarks or user scripts and possibly reviewing 10 pages [~48 hours] of questions). Instead, if you want to consider something like this, first identify if most of your close votes come from review vs. drive-by votes. Then, if they come from review, you can ask to have your queue delay increased. | |
| Apr 23, 2017 at 11:56 | history | answered | Paul Stanley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |