We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold from 5 to 3 for good
It’s my birthday today and I’ve got a gift for you. 🎁We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.About a month ago, Shog shared the results of our experiment testing...
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Show question tags when reviewing reopen votes
I'm reviewing reopen votes, but half the time I can't tell what language the code is in and have to open in question in another tab, and it is pretty annoying. Example:(link here)Seeing the tags would...
View ArticleMake it possible to retract reopen votes
It is possible to retract close votes by clicking on the close button again and then clicking on "Retract close vote", but it doesn't seem to be possible to retract reopen votes (clicking the reopen...
View ArticleWe need to improve the chances of reopening closed questions
The situationIt’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...
View ArticleDon't cause the reopen vote of the user, whose edit pushed the closed...
The current behavior is like this:A question gets closedA user edits the question pushing it into the reopen queueThat same user later votes to reopen itThe reopen review is invalidatedThis also...
View ArticleHas the Reopen Votes queue gotten longer lately? If so, why?
I seem to remember not so long ago (within the past year or two) the Reopen Votes queue would generally stay in 3 digits, generally hovering somewhere between 500-900 items. These days, it's been...
View ArticleShould we consider answers when closing questions as duplicates?
I stumbled upon the following question in the reopen queue:Checking if a number is a prime number in PythonThe question the user wants answered boils down to a trivial error in a while-loop (in a code...
View ArticleDirectly vote to not close a question
I would like to have the option to say "leave open" when I'm clicking on the close link under a question, the same way as when the question is shown to me in the close votes review queue.Sometimes,...
View ArticlePlease allow us to rescind reopen votes [duplicate]
It is currently not possible to undo a reopen vote:Undo a reopen request?Please add a feature to allow us to do so, in the same way that we can undo a close vote.Previous questions asked "can we?" I am...
View ArticleHow can we prevent or discourage people from closing questions about which...
There is not a week that goes by that I do not see a question that was closed for "This question needs details or clarity" and yet the question is perfectly clear to me. My hypothesis is that this...
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Can we see details of "Not suitable for this site" close reason in the Reopen...
Note: this could be duplicate of this question, but that one was about the old interface and is no longer relevant.In "reopen votes" review interface, some questions are marked as "Not suitable for...
View ArticleReopen votes aging time isn't directly mentioned in the help center
Quote from cast close and reopen votes:Close votes age away harmlessly if the threshold is not reached after several days. If the question has at least 100 views, close votes will age away after 4...
View ArticleHow did this old question end up in the reopen queue?
Today this question: Java - Connecting javascript to servlet [duplicate] showed up in the reopen queue.It was closed as a duplicate (correctly) in 2016.I'm curious as to whether there's any reason for...
View ArticleWhy was this typo question reopened?
This question (web archive for <10k users) looks to me like something that should clearly be closed: it dumps a piece of code with several typos and asks why there is a syntax error. So I voted to...
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...
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...
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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 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...
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 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 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...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
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