Timeline for Reminder to close-voters
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| Jul 3, 2019 at 13:30 | comment | added | Frostfyre | @SherwoodBotsford That feature has been asked for a few times and is rejected everytime. | |
| Jul 3, 2019 at 12:59 | comment | added | Sherwood Botsford | I would like to see a modification of the SE software stack to REQUIRE a comment to cast a vote to close, or to downvote. | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 12:50 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ with https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 6:39 | comment | added | OrangeDog | @Frostfyre in my experience, they don't bother to separate out the useful / relevant comments from the flagged ones and the whole lot just goes. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 0:24 | comment | added | Frostfyre | @OrangeDog Such an action is usually taken for discussions that are off-topic or offensive. Long comment chains in which the OP is discussing improving the question with others, and makes said changes, are often deleted as obsolete and unneeded. Long, pertinent discussions are moved to chat. Aside from these cases, I would hope a diamond mod wouldn't abuse his/her powers. | |
| Aug 11, 2016 at 22:50 | comment | added | OrangeDog | I have seen moderators just delete an entire comment thread leaving nothing behind - so it may not always be the case that people didn't leave a comment. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 5:45 | comment | added | a4android | I should explain where I'm coming from in posting my comments. While I'm new to the WB SE, I'm an old-hand at complex decision making. While I started in science I have had nearly twenty years in the legal services of a government department (non-USA). Finding decisions going wrong is too much like work. I came here because WB is part of my writing. Making decisions & getting it right is hard. It can be done, but it takes focus, disciplined thinking & resolve. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 5:36 | comment | added | a4android | I hadn't been looking for problems with closure or holds. Finding two in one month is concerning. This suggests some closure decisions are being made incorrectly. Also, it must be happening frequently enough for someone like me to come across examples of incorrect decisions without trying. A protocol could be adopted for close voters. Read the question carefully. Read the closure criteria carefully & if necessary every time you are going to close vote. Assume the other close voters are wrong and check twice before you vote. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 5:23 | comment | added | a4android | Good to see this. In the last month I found two questions, one close & the other on hold, when I reviewed the purported reasons for their closure it was obvious neither of them fulfilled the closure criteria. One was a misreading of the OP's question & suggestions were made for its edit based on the misreading. The OP must have been more confused than anything else. This Q was put On Hold for Too Broad. I have flagged it for moderation. The closed Q was deemed Story Based. It didn't have any content that was remotely Story based. Incomprehensible. The OP edited the Q. It's still closed. | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 17:44 | comment | added | Frostfyre | @AndreiROM Maybe it should be featured? Diamond mods? Any opinion? | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | AndreiROM | I always make an effort to post a quick comment, and link to WB SE Risk Factors I suggest linking this site to pretty much everyone casting a close vote (if no one else has already) | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | Frostfyre | @Avernium For general users, not that I know of; but I believe diamond moderators can see who is voting, and I know they can send private messages to users. There aren't many enforcement methods on the SE; just community consensus through comments and meta posts (like this one). | |
| Jul 15, 2016 at 15:21 | comment | added | Avernium | Other than leaving a comment directed at close voters, are there any other useful active strategies for stemming this effect? This question has a similar situation with 4 off-topic close votes and not a single comment with a rationale. It seems to be a long-running issue. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 18:24 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | I completely agree. I can't name the number of things one of my questions received a down vote and a close vote without the user explaining why. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 15:39 | comment | added | James | Agreed. If you are not going to take the time to comment on closing a question or AT LEAST agree with another comment, please use the skip button. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | Separatrix | You are entirely correct. I think we've seen too many of the same type of question and forget that often each person needs to be given the same information individually, even when we've seen it before. | |
| Jul 14, 2016 at 12:37 | history | asked | Frostfyre | CC BY-SA 3.0 |