Questions tagged [custom-close-reasons]
For questions on Meta Stack Exchange about custom (site-specific or free-form) close reasons that appear under the heading "A community-specific reason" in the dialogs for closing or flagging questions.
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Display the underlying closure reason instead of "Not suitable for this site" in post timeline and revisions list
I recently went to edit this Stack Overflow question and, by looking at its revisions list, found out it ended up being closed because it's "Not suitable for this site" in the past (it has ...
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Exclude questions closed for certain specific close reasons from known-bad audits
A variety of sites, including Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu, Stack Overflow in Russian, TeX - LaTeX, and Meta Stack Exchange, have a community-specific close reason which is some version of "caused ...
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Additional backspace needed to display multiline placeholder
On community custom close reason page you need to press extra backspace button to make the multiline placeholder fully visible:
When you are clearing the text the only first line of placeholder ...
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Textbox placeholder for creating a site-specific close reason includes invalid short links
When a diamond moderator creates a new site-specific close reason, they are presented with a form to specify the various notices that should appear on closed posts. One of those notices, the one ...
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Asking many seeded, beginner questions [duplicate]
I've used SE and SO, only to ask questions to which I didn't know the answer.
But there may be another way to ask questions:
From a text book or other canonical reference (History, C++, etc., ...
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What is the procedure for adding community specific-close reasons? [duplicate]
Over on this Stack Overflow Meta post, it looks like the community has decided that they want to add a new community-specific close reason for non-English questions, but there hasn't been any post ...
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What Replacement Strings are available for use in Community Specific Close Reasons?
I've been working on a project to update some of our Community Specific closure reasons on Stack Overflow.
In my research, I've been looking network wide at our various community's closure reasons. I'...
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After our site graduated I can no longer see or edit our custom close reasons [closed]
Pets.SE graduated recently, together with many other sites. While still in Beta we had 2 custom close reasons. Now I took a look at the Manage community-specific close reasons site and all the custom ...
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Show the complete close reason in the Reopen Votes queue
The Reopen Votes queue shows the reason why the question was closed:
However, it only shows the generic reason "This question doesn't meet a Academia [sic] Stack Exchange guideline". If I ...
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Let's update our general off-topic close reason to use the 5 available close fields!
In case you're unfamiliar, I asked the question that lead to us updating our site-specific close reason to use the modernized close fields. The benefit of doing this is that the right information is ...
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Let's update our "only applicable to one specific site" close reason to utilize the five available close fields!
Current Proposal:
The currently accepted answer by Catija reflects the currently preferred proposal.
Journeyman Geek, seemingly speaking for the Meta Stack Exchange mod team at the time, brought ...
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Why are the community-specific close reasons not automatically included in the don't ask help article?
Any person can read a general pan-SE list of close reasons. Any person can read a site-specific list of on-topic areas – these are available in the help center. In a few SE sites, there is a list of &...
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New UI for modifying community-specific close reasons (for moderators) – bugs, feature requests, etc
With recent changes to the closing system, there is also a new interface for moderators to change and create site-specific close reasons. This is generally great, since it allows us to set different ...
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Please reinstate the words "off-topic" into the closing dialog
Recently, the button for "off-topic" in the closing dialog was changed to "A community-specific reason". To be clear, I agree with the gist of the change, since "off-topic&...
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How can we recommend new question close flags? For example: "can't answer because didn't provide code" on Stack Overflow [closed]
I've been contributing a bit lately to Stack Overflow and I have noticed an extremely common trend for new users to post questions explaining their problem, but not providing any code.
Things like:
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