Timeline for Is it worth the time and effort to reopen a question so that it can be closed for the right reason?
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 21:09 | comment | added | Braiam | "the only target close reason that is worth a change IMHO is duplicate" and most of the time not even that, since a question that is unclear, off topic or opinion based, its duplicated is almost certainly unclear, off topic or opinion based too. | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 18:14 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | More importantly, the close reason makes a big difference to the OP. If they get the message that their post is off-topic when it's really not off-topic, but just lacks sufficient information, then we've sent them away instead of helping them to improve their post (credit to The Wanderer for pointing this out to me BTW) | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 18:12 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I kind of partly disagree actually (agree about the dupes but)... if a post isn't going to be deleted (which closed questions often are, automatically) it does make a small difference to visitors to see why it was closed and it would be nice if this were accurate, though I agree it's usually too much effort to get reviewers to do this (because those who vote to reopen cannot then VTC), and if it's important enough I agree with muru's suggestion that custom-flagging is probably justified. But... | |
| Aug 27, 2017 at 17:53 | history | answered | Byte CommanderMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |