Timeline for How about a "Vote not to close" option to counter the "Vote to close"?
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| Feb 2, 2022 at 6:49 | history | edited | Ryan M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Note also that this is a feature request, not the completion of the original feature request
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| Feb 1, 2022 at 22:37 | history | edited | TylerH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
retracting a close vote has been a feature for like a decade
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| Aug 15, 2012 at 22:39 | comment | added | Mechanical snail | This is the related feature request meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/…. | |
| Jun 5, 2012 at 23:41 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @Jeff: this one? Yeah, I still think that makes some sense, for the reason Assaf gives here. But a "vote not to close" option (where you've not previously voted to close) is a recipe for gridlock (the discussion on ChrisF's answer points to this pretty clearly). Was just discussing this with Geoff in the context of a beefed-up "review" dashboard - at most, "disagreement" should just kick off the vote-aging timer sooner. | |
| Jun 5, 2012 at 23:26 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @shog that... is a very different feature request from the one the OP asked for. This one is declined for a reason, but I wouldn't be as opposed to allowing people to undo their own close vote. It's funny how people can't understand the editorial layer (3k users) trumping the "rule of the people" with upvotes. Because popularity, you see, is never wrong... | |
| Jun 28, 2009 at 21:49 | comment | added | Shog9 | I'd rather be able to retract a close vote (and then use it elsewhere... for instance, to re-open the now-good question if it still gets closed) | |
| Jun 28, 2009 at 14:19 | history | answered | Assaf Lavie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |