Questions tagged [voting-to-close]
Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question as off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ.
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Do we want to lower the close vote threshold?
Stack Overflow now has a 3 close vote threshold
We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.
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Other sites can have whatever ...
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Should Drupal 5 posts be closed?
Since only ~0.1% of Drupal sites are still using Drupal 5 and it's not supported since 2011, the questions and answers are outdated and probably not useful to anybody.
Can all Drupal 5 be closed as ...
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How can the Community user close questions?
How can the Community user close questions? I know it performs various tasks, but this is the first time I've seen this particular action.
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Please review close votes!
There are currently 261 questions waiting for review, as far as I could tell. Maybe my guess is off a little, but it seems consistent with 270 on the orange bar.
There are many of us who can vote! ...
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Bug within daily vote limit mechanism?
I reached my daily vote limit with close votes. This made me unable to enter a close review queue. But now, few hours later, I can enter the queue. Still have 13 hours to wait to actually vote.
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Should I answer "off-topic" questions before casting a close-vote?
This is regarding a question, which to me appears to be "off-topic" as it is a basic programming question; and also most probably might also be closed as most of the questions from the same user are.
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I cannot vote to close questions
This evening I was trying to close a question, and I noticed I could not. All the times I paste the question ID in the text area, the browser tries to load the previous of the question, but it fails. ...
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Very poor quality questions everywhere (like panels everywhere but without the magical feeling...)
The quality of questions asked by new (and some not-so-new) users seems to have taken a dramatic downturn in the last week or so. Looking at the front page right now I've already closed about 4 of ...
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What do we want to do with un-constructive questions that have a bounty on them?
A question has been asked: How to make a responsive theme in Zen 5? Modules and procedures to keep or to leave from older Zen versions.
The question is not constructive and should be closed, but the ...
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Closing a question as a duplicate of another - when you've answered the duplicate question
I just closed https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/51053/global-redirect-and-www-example-com-node as a dupe of Disable node summary page on /node path, and then realised afterwards I'd answered ...
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Re-opening questions that have been closed for perhaps the wrong reason
There's a vote to re-open this question: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/12608/is-there-a-book-on-commons-available that's popped up in the review queue, and I was wondering how to handle ...
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Should close votes be cast on unsuitable questions that have been answered?
If there is a question that is not suitable for the site as per the FAQ, but has been answered (correctly), is it still suitable to cast a close vote?
For example, this question is not a good fit ...
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My flag for closing a question has been declined, but the question is now closed. What happened?
I flagged a question to close it, and my flag has been declined. The question has been closed the same.
How can my flag not be useful, if the question has been closed?
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Is this type of question too localized?
I saw a question: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/5320/porting-openatiums-poor-mans-activity-to-drupal-7, and I wonder if such a question is too localized. It's about porting a specific ...
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Should questions where the OP reports they find the solution, but doesn't add the solution as answer be closed as too localized?
Insert images with Media.
https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/1680/drupal-not-recognizing-updated-theme
In the first question, the OP updates the question one hour later the question was ...
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