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Can we get the close and reopen voting thresholds lowered to 3?
Update:
Testing of three-vote closing is starting on Thursday, May 6 on 12 SE sites, and we are not one of those sites. The test will last for 45 days, and then the results will be analyzed. After ...
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Can we get the close and reopen voting thresholds lowered to 3?
Update
I've made the change - main site requires only 3 votes to close or reopen. I'll see if I can look at time to close as another element for this.
As of September 28th, the testing phase of the ...
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Would moderators please be as quick to reopen as they are to close
Unfortunately, moderators have binding votes (for better or worse). We cannot choose to use a binding vote or a "regular" vote. For that reason, we have tried to keep ourselves away of the "close" and ...
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Should a civic-minded question-fixer have the responsibility of creating additional questions?
Neither
Leave a gentle comment and then wait. If the OP does not come back to clarify the post and narrow down the questions within a few days then the question should be flagged for closure as too ...
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How many days to wait before fixing someone else's question
It is nice you ask this in Meta because 1) I forgot to answer to your comment in the linked question, and 2) immediately after writing that comment I asked myself the same question :)
To 1) I am ...
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Gentle ways of bringing newcomers into our way of doing things
My thoughts on this:
Let's edit imperfectly posed questions which are salvageable.
You probably picked one of the worst examples possible for this discussion. That question-post had like other 7 ...
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Gentle ways of bringing newcomers into our way of doing things
Let's edit imperfectly posed questions which are salvageable.
The question contains many different questions. The user is still around, so we can hope they will edit it some day (in fact, they ...
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Would moderators please be as quick to reopen as they are to close
Fedorqui gave the solution in a comment: flag.
Apparently our fearless leaders have recently been trying to leave more of the housekeeping to the rest of us (which is a good thing, I think), so they ...
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¿Cerrar las preguntas de anteriores ediciones de Translation Golf para que no inunden la "front page" del stack?
Cerrar las preguntas no solucionaría el problema: una vez cerradas, seguirán apareciendo en la página inicial. Solamente dejan de aparecer las preguntas con puntuación menor o igual que -4 (y menor o ...
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Answering to "Learn to think in Spanish?", now migrated
OP asked how to overcome his dread of speaking in Spanish.
McArthey, I would like to share something that may be helpful for you. Given that your question was closed, the only place I could find to ...
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¿Tiene sentido indicar que una pregunta es un duplicado de una publicación cerrada?
Propongo que se resuelva este lío de la siguiente manera:
Redactar una nueva pregunta (Charo puede hacer esto, si quiere -- pero cualquiera lo puede hacer)
Charo que postee su respuesta completa (...
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¿Tiene sentido indicar que una pregunta es un duplicado de una publicación cerrada?
¿Tiene sentido indicar que una pregunta es un duplicado de una publicación cerrada?
No, no tiene demasiado sentido. La idea de tener preguntas canónicas y preguntas duplicadas es que la canónica ...
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¿Tiene sentido indicar que una pregunta es un duplicado de una publicación cerrada?
Cuando propongo un duplicado, o cuando respondo a una pregunta, mi objetivo principal es dar una respuesta correcta. Por esta razón, no quiero proponer como duplicada una pregunta cuya respuesta ...
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Can we get the close and reopen voting thresholds lowered to 3?
Let me make a further suggestion.
Since many of us who post on this stack are scientists of one variety or another we should really do an experiment before making a permanent change. I propose that ...
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What are the limits of "no research effort"?
As I said in the comments I believe that the limits of "no effort" are subjective and it's very difficult (and maybe even counterproductive) to try to give a one-size-fits-all solution.
The reason ...
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