Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Module Usage Questions
Do we have a set of criteria for what constitutes an acceptably detailed "module" question? I've been seeing - or perhaps noticing - more questions along the lines of "I bought a DC-DC ...
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Are missing frameworks (or other incomplete background knowledge) sufficient reason to close a question?
And should such questions, categorically, and/or as a rule, be closed? (More pertinent: can such questions: (a) be consistently and objectively identified? (b) ...By the community? These are also ...
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Add a 'Blatantly off-topic' close reason
Most Stack Exchange sites have a Blatantly off-topic close reason available, like this: On EE, we currently have two specific close reasons related to off-topic questions. However, we're missing a ...
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Update the on-topic help page: Repair questions, "do insteads"
We have number of close reasons, aside from the SE-network-wide ones: Questions seeking recommendations for specific products or places to purchase them are off-topic as they are rarely useful to ...
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Why should "How to divide a natural number by 3" not be answered as is due to lack of detail or clarity?
How to best multiply by 3 a natural number given in binary, using combinatorial logic? How to divide by 3? wasn't a good fit with StackExchange, starting with essentially asking two questions, if ...
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Should abandonment be a "community-specific" close reason?
Every question that is both old and not with an accepted answer will be bumped sooner or later by the Community bot into the recently active questions. However, a fair portion of them are obviously ...
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Should we make it mandatory to explain close comments?
I've recently seen several posts with close votes without any comment indicating the author what the problem is. If the author doesn't have enough reputation to view close votes, he gets no feedback ...
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What should we do about the bad close vote culture of this site?
I have noticed a growing problem here during the last year or so - likely it surfaced/escalated when we got the reduced close vote consensus necessary reduced from 5 to 3. There is a whole lot of ...
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Why was this question closed (and then deleted)?
Since the medium length question was apparently too complex and the short question wasn't apparently clear enough, I will try to rewrite the question about the closing in a more answerable form, ...
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Why are we 'afraid' to close questions as duplicates?
I've noticed a couple of experienced longtime users answering questions which they surely know are duplicates of other older questions. In at least one case the same user answered essentially the same ...
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Possibly clarify the "shopping" OT closure rule
Appropriate closure? This closed question below (OT, the "shopping" issue) wasn't actually asking for reviews of commercial electronic devices, or for component purchase recommendation. ...
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What is this closed question lacking in clarity?
What can cause voltage irregularities across an IC chip? The question seems to me straightforward and answerable, though since only one person tried I understand there is a problem with it. Probably ...
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Would it be a good idea to have more "this question belongs on another site" options?
While reviewing our close dialogs, I noticed that as of now, only migration to meta.electronics and superuser is possible. I'd propose we add multiple: StackOverflow because there's the occasional &...
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Adding a community specific close message for homework
After checking the stats on custom closing messages, homework seems to come up at least 30% to 50% of the time. Because of this, creating a custom closing message would be beneficial. Homework ...
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Close reason for a calco (like a typo)?
The question How to fully discharge supercapacitor? was answered by showing the user that they had made a calculation error. Should there be a "caused by a typo or calculation error" close reason?
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