would like have some clarifications on what's going on here and on wb in general

Question

there are few aspects on which would like to have some clarifications.

A

I would like to see how those two questions are duplicate:

How much would take and cost to construct a building/tower that reaches space? (with todays technology)

How much would take and cost to construct a building/tower that reaches space? (with todays technology) [duplicate]

is a duplicate of How to build a tower that reaches dozens of miles into space

Obviously, on our current Earth with our current tech, such towers would be impossible. However, this is Star Wars. How would the inhabitants of the Galaxy Far Far Away build a tower like this?

B

would be interesting to know why mod participates in that, just by a mistake or there is some official position there? Not the first time I notice a certain rush in a judgment, which probably creates not the beast "lead by an example" case.

D

flagged the question under a pretense that one of deciding parties involved was mod under mod privileges as it was deciding vote if not singlehandedly done (I do not know and can't know that, and sure I see 5 votes, but which button was pressed), pointing that, maybe a bit too excited doing so.

declined. Sure, I more than happy to agree it does not require mod intervention if there would be no mod intervention, to begin with. And as mods got involved in the question and the decision they clearly show it has some business with them, so no point to decline the flag for such a reason. I missed pointing out that connection, but there aren't that many mods and such.

edit

• aspect C moved to it's own q

This question will be improved further, to focus and split it. But it turns out that my SQL skills are rusty beyond repair so digging for data is harder than would like it to be, so as there is plenty of information to process.

Also glad to see the overwhelming support in both questions, honored.

ed2

Abort abort, no improvements.

I was contemplating on life and everything, so as on information dug, so as to information answers and other things provided here and there, so as result got some revelations and come to certain conclusions.

the q stays as it is for history shake, and to focus it - it just gets only bigger. Not sure I have current the time to write another longest answer on wb, not there is a need for it.

I hope it will just go as yet another feedback on how things look from the user's perspective.

as a tip

• people pay more attention, be more careful with border cases.
• lack of knowledge does not mean impossibility, no one is all-knowing here and it is the reason for wb to exist. Kinda apply knowledge for strange situations.
• we all long know that se model is not the best fit for wb, so be more in the spirit of it, not the form.

wb is a great place. peace/.

Answer 1

would be interesting to know why mod participates in that, just by a mistake or there is some official position there?

Mods are not exempted nor removed from the review queue.

Mods and golden badged users have the privilege of single-vote closure, but as you can see in the screenshot my vote was the 5th and last one needed here for the closure. Being the 5th one, my vote counted as if I was a normal user.

Even when a moderator or a golden badged user votes to close a question, that doesn't prevent the rest of the community for voting to reopen, which takes us to your point D.

You voted to reopen the question and then used the flag to throw what sounds like a rant. What were you expecting out of it? Usually users who disagree with the closure explain their reasons by commenting the closed question, so that other members of the community can decide how to vote.

About point C, as already pointed out in the comments, you can find more info here.

Answer 2

Couple things to consider...

Point A
In reading the two queries side by side, I see an interesting conundrum.

To address your question, I'd argue that typologically they're both asking the same basic question. How does one build a really tall building? Nzall's query was asked five years ago and the other was asked about five days ago. That's classical grounds for duplicate closure.

And what is the conundrum? Neto actually specifies, though in a somewhat haphazard fashion, the criteria by which they'd like to see the question answered: materials, costs, design considerations, potential problems to be addressed & overcome. The older question does not.

Another problem: the other question asks about the Star Wars universe. If Nzall had asked that question two weeks ago, and Neto had asked hers five days ago, pretty images notwithstanding, I'd have voted to close that question as it deals specifically with a third party intellectual property (Star Wars / Lucasfilms / Diznee) because we generally refer such questions to Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Our job here in Worldbuilding is to help community members build their own fictional worlds, not help Nzall satisfy their random curiosity about someone else's work.

Conundrum: should I vote to reopen Neto's question (perhaps editing it in the process, or asking him to clean it up!), and vote to close the older question for being off topic? We've had some recent discussion to the effect (and if I understand right) that it's kind of considered bad form to VTC queries that go way back in time.

This is an interesting case because we find ourselves caught between the rock of the precedent query being somewhat culturally untouchable and the hard place of ids, ultimately more useful, query being an obvious duplicate.

Point D
Civility goes a long way, even when it's hidden away in a flag that only the Mod Squod will see.

This closure might be one of those moments where one can step back, take a look at both questions with fresh eyes and see the underlying similarities, as well as the differences. Also keep in mind that Mods are ordinary community members. L Dutch happens to be one of our more gifted regulars, asking & answering queries as well as tirelessly monitoring for problem questions before they turn into a cluster. You can clearly see his work in the many recent questions that have been single handedly closed for one issue or another.

Once those issues are taken care of, I'm always happy to VTR, and it's very possible that L Dutch is watching over those queries he's hammerclosed and may very well pry them open again!