Questions tagged [vote-to-close]
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Again on closing unclear questions with answers
Recently, I have seen this question closed with the motivation, "This question needs details or clarity," even though it already had two coherent answers before closing. Looking for previous ...
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Incorrect message when you try to Vote to Close a question that was closed and then re-opened
I noticed this a little bit ago on an older question. I clicked "vote to close", but the box that came up said, "You cannot vote to close again after retracting your vote." I ...
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Who closed my question?
I asked a question Question about entanglement. I would expect that people commenting on the question would be familiar with this phenomenon and its philosophical issues. But someone made a comment ...
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How to resolve multiple open duplicates of essentially the same question
There are 4 variations of essentially the same question about the effect of pressure on dew point. From oldest to newest they are: How does athmospheric pressure influence dewpoint? To calculate the ...
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Who or what closes questions here on the Physics Stack Exchange site?
Who or what closes questions here on the Physics Stack Exchange site? None of my questions are "homework" questions, and I wish whoever closes them would actually "read them more ...
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Is there a way to hide a question for editing?
I was dissatisfied with one of my own questions due to a lack of clarity and focus, which became clear after other users provided comments, but I thought that it could be worked into an interesting/...
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What are the rules for closing a question? [duplicate]
This question was closed by three users, none a moderator. I thought (from observation) that five were needed, or a moderator? What are the rules?
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Testing 3-vote close and reopen
After discussion about this was started two and a half years ago, I'm here to share that I'm enabling a test of three-vote close on Physics today. Firstly, I'd like to thank you for your patience. ...
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4 answers
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Should users answer questions that they think should be closed?
From time to time I come across posts that are closed by a user/users who has/have also submitted an answer to the question. I feel like this goes against the goal of closure, which is to prevent ...
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Add a vote *not* to close button to counter the vote to close for questions that might have dissenting votes
To close a question that might be conceived to be against homework policy, or lacks clarity only 4 users need to vote to close it. But some obscure questions might be unclear to a majority of the ...
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1 answer
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Careless mistakes in formulas shouldn't be treated the same as non-mainstream physics
In this question, What is the Schrödinger equation in position velocity space? I originally made a careless mistake when writing the Schrödinger equation in velocity space, as I had originally ...
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Little tolerance with mathematical-physics questions
I progressively feel that a typical user interested in the mathematical-physics tag, like me, is not welcomed in the community; not to mention, that at least as I can tell, the community is not ...
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Bounty reimbursement
There are sometimes rather low quality questions appearing in the bounty section. Today these are this and this. In my opinion both require quite a bit of work (such as a discussion in the comments) ...
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Getting a better understanding of how and why off-topic homework-like questions get answered before they can be closed
Background This is a follow-up to What happened with the experiment to lower the vote-to-close threshold?. (See that thread, and the initial proposal here, for background.) The experiment is currently ...
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Should I refrain from marking a question as a duplicate of my question or of a question that I answered?
Clearly, marking a question as a duplicate of either my own question or of a question that I answered is not against the rules. But, there seems to be a conflict of interest in the context of the &...
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