What was wrong with my edits and re-open vote?
A user posts a "why did they do this like that in Java" question.Someone warns them in the comments that it will, naturally, be closed.In an attempt to save it, the OP makes an edit, which in my...
View ArticleHow to to add remarks when casting a reopen vote
I just cast my first reopen vote, and I expected to be able to explain why I was doing so (the "Learn more" link explicitly asks for comments). However, I didn't see any possibilities to add some...
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Is it valid for a gold tag badge holder to annul other users' votes?
This is very similar to the question Is it valid for a diamond moderator to use their powers to override the closing votes of other users, in order to reopen a question? My answer to that is yes, and...
View ArticleJury feature for closed questions [closed]
I would like to propose something I would call the "Jury feature".What it does:A community member asks a question, and it gets closed with a generic "does not meet the rules" or "to little focus", and...
View ArticleGetting stats on my questions I've asked on Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange...
I would like to see stats on my questions, in particular, to see how many of them were:voted for closure with at least one close vote, orclosed, ordownvoted, orclosed and then reopened.Is it possible...
View ArticleA Second Chance: Rework the Reopen System
In the wake of the famous blog post, I'd like to propose a rework of the reopen system.The problem:Poorly asked questions by newbies often get downvoted and closed. Sometimes, helpful users try to...
View ArticleHow should I proceed if my re-open vote was rejected although the issues are...
Yesterday, a fairly new user (4 months, 9 reputation) posted a question about rounding in C#. When reading it for the first time, I had a feeling that I knew what they wanted to ask, but unfortunately...
View ArticleWhy was my question 75732423 deleted?
I asked a question, and it was closed.It was "in review" for ten days and was closed today.I edited the question and "Submit for review" it 10 days ago, and checked the "This edit resolves the original...
View ArticleIf I have sufficient rep, I should be able to edit a closed question and cast...
This feature request comes from this question, especially this comment.When I edit a closed question, there’s a checkbox below the edit area that reads:This edit resolves the original close reason and...
View ArticleIf I vote against reopening a question and later edit it, is my earlier...
I got this question in the review queue for reopen votes. I initially found it unclear so I voted to leave it closed; but later I read it again and finally understood what the author meant. I edited...
View ArticleAdd option to answer question when requesting reopening
There should be an option to add an answer WHILE requesting the reopening of a question,no matter if it's one's own or other's question. This way you didn't have to come back to add an answer to a now...
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View ArticleQuestion wrongly closed as duplicate. Please reopen [duplicate]
A few days ago I posted two questions with extensive answers that, I think, will be appreciated by a few folks of the IT crowd. Then, to my despair, one of the two questions got closed as duplicate....
View ArticleGold tag badge holder closed a question as a duplicate, community voted to...
Years ago, I asked a question that is now probably one of the top search engine results if you search for anything related to pointer size in C++. It's a 10 year old question which still gets...
View ArticleShould I vote to reopen when I believe the reason for closing no longer applies?
When browsing the reopen queue, I often find questions closed as too broad or unclear what you're asking that were afterwards edited. Let's say that from my point of view, the question is indeed...
View ArticleWhy was my question closed as "opinion based" when I'm asking how to solve a...
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: Highlighting the SEND button in MFMessageComposeViewControllerI asked a specific question on how to highlight a UI component within a predefined...
View ArticleIs it appropriate to vote to reopen specific duplicates with broad targets...
This question is about Go because that's the tag I watch, but it can be easily extended to any technology.Go is about to release version 1.18 which will bring generics to the language. This is a major...
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In which circumstances does the community review whether to reopen this...
Recently I have observed a gold language tag badge holder hammering a couple of questions as duplicates. Among the several questions the user has marked as duplicate today, a couple of them contain the...
View ArticleWhat percentage of questions here that qualify for an automatic reopen review...
One (apparently little-known) way that closed questions can be added to the reopen review queue, in addition to the usual methods of receiving a reopen vote or an edit with the review box checked, is...
View ArticleIs it possible to get a list of reopen requests or reopen votes?
I have just written a question. The question was closed as it was marked as a duplicate, but the proposal in the duplicate causes such a performance drop, that it becomes unusable.Therefore I have...
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