Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question if it is off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ.
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Reviewers; what do you eat for breakfast?
Ahem, this is going to be a rough one, so it's gonna be a long one too ala Pascal's famous quote. First, some context; we have
How to deal with robo-reviewers?
Should we have a Grace period to avoid ...
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Etiquette (particularly on voting to close)
It's good to get etiquette established early. I'd say that one big lesson from MathOverflow is that for people unused to the SO framework, getting a "vote to close" is like getting a kick in the face....
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Should we have a Grace period to avoid premature Voting to Close and Reopening Cycle
Although I have got sufficient reputation for Voting to Close, I rarely use (personal choice of course**) for a Q which is live on front page screen and less than 24 hrs old and for first-time users, ...
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Close voting is not a sport
We strive to be a friendly and rational community here, but the question below
Reducing the huge space before the first line of the KOMA letter class
was just closed as "Too broad".
This is a ...
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How to propose a question as duplicate without closing it due golden privilege?
Let's suppose I think a question with tikz-pgf tag is a duplicate of another one, but because I'm not sure about it I prefer someone else help me to decide it. The problem is that I have a gold medal ...
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Please add more off-topic close reasons
Recently I have started using Stack Overflow and one thing I noticed is that their close dialog is much more feature rich than ours. Let's see a picture of their "off-topic" reasons.
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About "trivial" questions
I have a question regarding "trivial" questions which sometimes appear on this site. By "trivial", I mean they don't require more insight than to "look in the manual". These usually aren't good ...
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Cancel asking to close?
This is probably very obvious, but if you vote to close a question which is subsequently edited to improve it (say to clarify how it's different from another one), how do you cancel your vote?
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Etiquette: how long do we wait before voting to close?
Case study: How to obtain perfect greyness with TeX?
This question makes absolutely no sense to me. I left a comment asking for clarification. On MathOverflow, I would vote to close with little ...
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Duplicates and closing questions.
This is in part a public service announcement and in part an invitation for discussion (see also the comments on Martin Tapankov's nomination).
First the announcement: everyone with at least 3000 rep ...
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Why are 'mistaken' questions marked off-topic?
Fairly often I see questions which are in fact about Tex & friends but are closed & marked off-topic. One reason I see listed in the comments is:
This question is off-topic because it ...
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Migration paths suggestions
Users with "close" priviledge can mark off-topic questions to be migrated to thie Meta.TeX.SX site. I suggest to add two more migration options:
StackOverflow - for questions about MathJaX
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What is the difference between these two kinds of close votes?
We find that we can ask a post to be closed in two ways.
Use the close link under a post.
And cast a close vote in the review panel.
What is difference between the two? How are they recorded in ...
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Should a question that is answered in a comment be voted on to be closed?
I may have misinterpreted the purpose of the close question status, so I welcome all comments about consequences that I haven't considered.
Context: As a TeX user with limited experience, I am not ...
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