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If someone had come here asking about how to deal with dangerous backyard pests, I'd firmly send them off to Gardening and Landscaping with a hoe and a kind word. But this is different. Once edited, this was clearly related to Ubuntu and of interest to our community. Therefore, even though we had good reasons for closing this question, I am inclined to agree with it being reopened.

If someone had come here asking about how to deal with dangerous backyard pests, I'd firmly send them off to Gardening and Landscaping with a hoe and a kind word. But this is different. Once edited, this was clearly related to Ubuntu and of interest to our community. Therefore, even though we had good reasons for closing this question, I am inclined to agree with it being reopened.

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• People want to move on to the next review item. Perhaps reviewing close (and reopen) votes should be a list instead of a queue.
• People assume a question with lots of close votes must merit closure, while actually it's more important to be critical the more close votes there are, since the more close votes there are, the higher probability your close vote will result in closure, and thus the more powerful it is. (Related.)