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15 questions linked to/from How often are closed questions re-opened?
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Take the following (now closed and deleted) question as example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32801813/how-can-i-generate-circles-with-random-thickness-and-radius-in-matlab?noredirect=1#...
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As a tangent to the active question regarding whether it's worth improving closed questions, I began wondering what percentage of closed questions are ever reopened. I have a feeling that it's not as ...
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tl;dr: there's a new review queue. It'll be getting somewhere around 1-2 questions per minute. The only thing they have in common is that the system is unsure of what to do with them. Some are great, ...
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There's so much confusion and debate over what is welcoming and what is expected of users with the Code of Conduct changing. There's a fine line we step between being frank in our discourse and what ...
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The situation It’s a well-known fact that closed questions tend to stay closed. This makes sense: most questions are closed for a good reason. But sometimes the asker puts in the work, edits the ...
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It seems that any user can edit a closed question. If a user doesn't have the rep then such an edit triggers possibly two reviews, an edit review and then, assuming the edit is approved, a reopen ...
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What exactly is a 'recommendation' question? I understand and agree with avoiding questions on SO that garner answers which are basically opinions or preferences, such as "I like X" or "We use Y and ...
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Related (from 2009): Now that there is a League of Super Heroes should the number of votes required to close/move be reduced? Also very related (but not identical): Why are 5 close votes required? ...
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Someone posted this rant earlier today: Stack Overflow encourages people not to think So many rules that may work for 90% of the time, but there will always be edge cases where they fail. But ...
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I like to spend some time clearing the triage queue for a mental break. Often I meet questions, especially from new users, where they ask something, without code, or all the details required for an ...
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There have been a couple of questions recently that have been put On Hold (too broad) within a short time of them having been asked. In their original form the questions do indeed fail to meet the SO ...
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Very often I downvote bad question that later on gets closed. Since, it is site policy that bad question should be edited and improved rather than deleted, it would be nice to receive notification ...
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If: "Stack Overflow is a place for programmers to share information relevant to other programmers" (Source) …and, if: "…each community decides which specific topics are and are not allowed on ...
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I basically always select "Leave Closed". So I'm asking: How many questions are actually reopened in total? In case I'm right in my assumption that this value is very low, I would ask the next ...
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Can a vote up down 'button' be added to the "Marked as Closed" rulings that >3k folks may place on what might be considered by many to be relevant Question threads?
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