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Close votes etiquette
I recently earned the privilege to close and reopen votes. I am ecstatic that I earned this privilege. It is of course, my intention to do all I can to improve AU website. There are some legitimate ...
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What happened to "blatantly off-topic"?
If I remember correctly there was a "blatantly off-topic" option in Flagging > Closing > Off-topic (while flagging a question). But while closing this question
What does it mean physical realty of ...
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Why has this question been closed?
I fail to see why this question has been closed as "Not a real question" - it is an interesting question, has upvotes, 4 good relevant answers and is on-topic.
More broadly, I'm a bit concerned that ...
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How is it decided which close reason is to be given?
I have recently been VTCing questions and noticing that even though I may VTC a question as off-topic, because there are a larger amount of people VTCing it for another reason, the other reason is ...
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Why was this question closed?
I came upon this question (If Windows 10 "upgrade" affects GRUB2 and screws up my dual boot with Ubuntu will I have to completely wipe my computer and start from scratch?) from Google and I ...
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Why don't we have "required/requested input not provided" close reason for abandoned questions?
While I've just recently acquired the privilege for voting to close questions, I find it hard to find the right close reasons for the following very common scenario. Someone asks a question, but does ...
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Are bug complaints with addressable non-bug causes on-topic?
Sometimes a user asks a question and shows the error message, and the error message clearly indicates that there is a bug in the application. If it weren't for the bug, that message wouldn't be shown. ...
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Was 142386 closed because it's about FreeBSD, or because it might not also be about Ubuntu?
This question was closed as off topic, and there is a comment (though not by one of the close-voters) saying that it's off-topic but would be on topic at Unix.SE.
The question is undeniably about ...
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Let's reopen this Wubi question that Microsoft Windows thought was off-topic
In this question posted yesterday, the OP has a Wubi system that will not start, because the Windows boot loader (which loads Wubi--in a Wubi system you select Ubuntu from the Windows boot menu) has a ...
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Closing questions using a non-valid argument
I posted yesterday this question and I was put on hold as off-topic because:
"Bug reports and problems with the development version of Ubuntu should be reported on Launchpad so that developers can ...
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Is this Perl-related question being closed too hastily?
This question is about to be closed:
Perl doesn't include directory
That's too bad, since:
Perl scripting is a standard system administration technique and it doesn't make much sense to reject ...
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What do we use for "not a question" posts?
So, since the changes to the close and flag reasons we lost the ability to mark "not a question" as a reason.
We can still use that reason, for posts that are simply guides to fix something but aren'...
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