«When a question reaches 3 reopen votes, it is no longer closed» is that so?
According to the help centerWhen a question reaches 3 reopen votes, it is no longer closed, andnew answers may be submitted.At least three different users expressed interest in reopening this question...
View ArticleFeature request: Add "Propose an Answer" as an option to re-open a closed post
Referring to this re-open review: https://stackoverflow.com/review/reopen/27991434This particular question is not a good candidate for re-opening, but it has been edited to include a solution because...
View ArticleThe process of closing and re-opening questions should be more robust
Yesterday, I asked a valid technical question regarding WPF.Well, I'm an experienced software architect. I know what I'm doing and how to ask a question in a correct manner. In my question I provided a...
View ArticleWhy is being one of the close voters not enough to reopen a question with...
A better phrasing is probably: why isn't a vote for reopen equal to retracting a vote for closing?It makes sense that I can't just pick a random closed question and reopen it with just my vote, but why...
View ArticleReopen C++ argument parsing
I vote we re-open the following question, which has been closed for 9 years:How to Parse Command Line Arguments in C++?This question was closed as a duplicate, but the duplicate was also closed as...
View ArticleWhich 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...
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...
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How to open the corresponding review item when viewing a question/answer?
When browsing on Stack Overflow I often see questions with pending close/reopen votes, that I disagree with. But I can't express my disagreement because the corresponding review task is inaccessible...
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...
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My question, which I was able to reopen myself after it was closed as a...
I've posted a question which was was closed as a duplicate.Believing it not to be a duplicate, I voted to reopen, which instantly reopened the question, because I do have a gold regex tag badge (I've...
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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 ArticleWhy did question 2487921 get reopened?
We have two almost exactly the same questions in PHP that deal with converting date format from one to another:Convert one date format into another in PHPConvert a date format in PHP<- reopenedFor a...
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 ArticleWhy won't this question reopen? [duplicate]
How do I use the Windows Magnification API in Python to invert the screen?, a self-answered question, was closed as needs details or clarity, because I didn't include enough details (I'd figured out...
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 Article"Preemptive vote reopen" feature [duplicate]
I see a question on verge of closure (2 / 3 votes), and don't agree with closing. If it were closed, I'd vote reopen. But I won't check back on the question over and over to see if it was closed.I...
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 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 ArticleCan my question about storing checkbox be opened?
Question Asked: How should checklist be stored in the database from atomic point of view?I would like to answer my own question, thoroughly, since I implemented my design and want to show pro and cons...
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