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Is there hard data on users' reopen voting patterns?
Close voting by user
There have been 15403 close votes since the site started, and 1416 reopen votes; or about 10 times as many close votes as open votes. Note, this does not count the deleted ...
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Is there hard data on close votes?
I spent a bit of time digging into this. I looked at the past 365 of questions posted on the site to get the numbers. Here is what I found:
Over the past 365 days, there were 6,534 questions asked, ...
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Why not show the people who reopened?
Actually, that information is readily available.
Just because it was reasonably easy to find an example among them, I'm going to use one of your own questions as an example: Could mirrors be put in ...
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How is this an 'offtopic' question? Can this please be reopened?
My Penny Hapenny
I read your questions in Main and here in Meta. I read the responses and all the comments. More importantly, I read everything between the lines.
Your query wasn't closed because it'...
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I think my question on the 1/72 scale nuke should be opened and was closed for blatantly wrong reasons
Worldbuilding vs Realism
Here is a classic issue of tension we have in WB.SE: on one side we have the worldbuilders trying to bring some sense of wonder into the real world --- be that via fantasy or ...
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A chat room for reopening (and closing?) questions
I'm not sure if this is a good idea...
I'm not an avid user of the chat rooms, but even I've seen the usual "vtc plz" it seems kinda close to encouraging voting rings, just with close and reopen ...
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Is there room for improvement on the close/reopen question features?
1. The mechanics of voting is controlled by Stack Exchange
The first problem is that the actual process of VTC/VTR is programmatically controlled by Stack Exchange — not us. Any change would ...
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Can "Is it possible for a planet to become moon of a gas giant and sustain life as is?" be reopened?
After you made this meta post, the question was reopened and then closed as a duplicate.
Duplicates aren't bad! If you didn't find the linked questions, perhaps other people won't either. And ...
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Is there hard data on close votes?
I don't know if votes that age away are tracked anywhere.
Users with 10k rep can see some close/reopen statistics for the last 90 days. For each close reason, it includes the number closed, the ...
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An invitation to reopen a magic-system question
I didn't comment on the question, I didn't upvote, didn't downvote and didn't vote to close -- I seldom, if ever, take any action on magic-related questions. But this specific question needs heavy ...
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How is this an 'offtopic' question? Can this please be reopened?
You have been already explained in the comment what are the problems with your question, and you have dismissed them as "problems the commenter is making".
Why don't you try fixing them, ...
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Question closed despite lack of legitimate complaints
You might be misunderstanding this site
I was not one of the close voters, but after reading this post and your question, I think some clarification is in order.
There is no such thing as a perfect ...
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How is this an 'offtopic' question? Can this please be reopened?
The question was closed because and I quote "This question does not appear to be about worldbuilding, within the scope defined in the help center.". Your primary question, quoting again, was ...
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I request to open my question again or explain why it's worse than 90% of other questions here
I'm Confused
Didn't you ask this question the other day? I remember answering you!
I think, just perhaps, you didn't follow through on the bit where I suggested that you place restrictions on the ...
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I have no idea whatsever why my question was closed as too-story based, it was pure worldbuilding. I request to reopen it!
REQUEST GRANTED!!!
...All you have to do is edit your question slightly! I have no horse (or dog) in this race, but I can tell you that I would not have voted to close your question because of it ...
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How to fix "Unclear What You're Asking"?
Thanks for bringing this to Meta, Devon.
First of all, and this is important, this site hasn't existed for a super long time. The rules of even a year ago are not the rules of today. Consequently, ...
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What happens when an on-hold question is edited and nominated for reopening by the OP?
The first edit on a question that is "On Hold" automatically sends the question to the "Reopen Review Queue" where members with more than 3k reputation can vote to leave it closed or reopen it. When 2 ...
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A chat room for reopening (and closing?) questions
Over on Stack Overflow we have Stack Overflow Close Vote Reviewers (we do reopens and deletions as well). Of course, the moderation load is much larger over there (our Close Vote queue hovers around ...
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Frequent closure and reopening of popular questions
This is not a problem. Yes, this is how the site is supposed to work.
You seem to be missing (or ignoring) a bit of the picture; when a post is closed, and then reopened, it is not prevented from ...
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Frequent closure and reopening of popular questions
This is not a problem
Everyone can only vote to close or reopen any single question once. This is to prevent close/reopen wars, which means that at some point the community consensus will be visible.
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How to edit my on hold question: Antimatter Planet Collision
It's fair to say that your original question has raised some vigourous debate as per Vincent's comment. I personally didn't engage in that debate directly but I did follow it closely, and you'll note ...
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I think my question on the 1/72 scale nuke should be opened and was closed for blatantly wrong reasons
I voted to reopen. Although you already have an accepted answer, so I'm not sure how much more attention it will get, I do think there are more aspects to the question that could be explored, e.g. ...
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How is this an 'offtopic' question? Can this please be reopened?
What are you going to do with a library-sized pile of information?
As of the date of this answer, there remain the same two problems that have always existed with your question.
You are asking more ...
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Question closed despite lack of legitimate complaints
Contexting the closure reasons
When I voted to close, votes were divided into 3 categories :
2 votes for lacking focus,
1 vote for lacking details,
and 1 community-specific closure. I haven't checked ...
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I think my question on the 1/72 scale nuke should be opened and was closed for blatantly wrong reasons
Let's figure out what is your question
Drawing heavily on AlexP's comment to the original question, if we were looking at a conventional explosive - for example, a satchel charge - then a 1/72 scale ...
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I think my question on the 1/72 scale nuke should be opened and was closed for blatantly wrong reasons
Sorry, this is still unclear
As JBH pointed out in comments :
What I don't understand is why dividing the consequences of known detonations by 72 isn't enough to solve your problem? If I recall, the ...
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Can we reopen the question about a colony on Neptune?
No
The query, as it currently stands at Astronomy, reads: I am currently writing a medium-length sci-fi story for a school project, and my hope is to make it as realistic as possible. I was wondering ...
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Is there room for improvement on the close/reopen question features?
Isn't there any way to come with a better system to reopen a question than waiting, with the low amount of people reacting, for 5 people to pull together to challenge a disputed closure?
Sure there ...
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How to fix "Unclear What You're Asking"?
You have a little misconception - your question was not temporarily put on hold as "Too Broad" as you state in the body of your question, but as "Unclear what you are asking"
That ...
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