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9 questions linked to/from A Second Chance: Rework the Reopen System
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When is Stack Overflow going to stop demonizing the quality-concerned users who have made the site a success?
Yes, it's another meta question about the "Stack Overflow isn't very welcoming" blog post.
As someone who has been on this site for almost a decade, who has tried to post good questions, who has ...
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Is Stack Overflow really racist/sexist?
In Jay Hanlon's recent "Not Welcoming" blog article, Jay claims in the first sentence that the community is unfriendly to women and people of color.
I myself never look at who's posting, let alone ...
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Can we make it more obvious to new users that downvotes on the main site are not insults and in fact can help them help themselves?
So, going through the questions about the blog post, it's stirred an old question in me I've wanted to ask for a while. To be clear, I have been sitting on this question for a while, not quite ...
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We need to improve the chances of reopening closed questions
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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Changing new users' expectations of this site *before* they ask their question by requiring them to pass a test
The problem:
Currently, to ask a question, a user has to tick a button at the bottom of a page of text:
Nowhere am I told that Stack Overflow isn't a forum. At no point is it checked that I have read ...
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Which edits push closed questions to the reopen review queue?
So far I was working under the assumption that any edit will push a closed question to the review queue.
After all, we advise question-banned users to improve their old questions, and that would not ...
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Bring downvote limits and possible reversals in line with the system auto flags and downvote/delete votes and incentivise positive contributions
TL;DR After considerable downvotes, a question gets improves to no longer warrant the downvotes but they are rarely reverse since users move on. How can we prevent this situation or encourage users to ...
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Notification to closers when question is proposed for reopening
I'm not sure if this was proposed before in clear (if it was, please mark my question as duplicate), but when this idea comes up in discussions, most seem to agree it would be a good feature:
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Should we still have two different systems to mark low-quality questions?
We currently have two methods to indicate that a question should be improved or removed¹:
Close votes: Non-anonymous, some feedback, independent from upvotes, can all be removed at once ("reopen"), ...
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