Timeline for Close votes of different types
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| Aug 5, 2018 at 11:46 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | You may want to upvote this feature request on Meta Stack Exchange: Distinguish close votes by reason | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 16:07 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | @R.vanDobbendeBruyn: As to migration, I think it is easy enough for the OP to paste their question into a question box at the other site themselves -- that way they get a fresh question there which gets better visibility in general. Thus on the side of MO, it would suffice to close the question, and to suggest (a) site(s) where to post it instead -- and leave the choice to the OP. | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | @StefanKohl: interesting; I didn't think to challenge the available options. There is certainly some ambiguity in them, and they could benefit from a revision. To add to your options, I think migration to math SE or academia SE could both be helpful tools as well (the former currently exists; the latter doesn't). | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 12:32 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | Rather, wouldn't it be enough to have two close reasons "off-topic" and "no longer relevant" -- where closing a question as "off-topic" deletes existing answers and adds a message like "This question does not appear to be a good fit for this site in its present form. If it can be changed in order to make it suitable for this site, you might find relevant advice in the comments.", and closing a question as "no longer relevant" adds a message like "This question has run its course, and does not accept further answers."? | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 14:37 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 13:42 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Re what Emil said: in practice this is usually true. Usually the author of a question will not really be able to act on "not research level" in order to improve the question. Some of the others (like "unclear what you're asking" or "primarily opinion-based") do seem more like an invitation to improvement, although usually the author will need a hand-hold to discover what exactly is unclear, etc. But I think the OP has a laudable aim here: to try to give questions more of a chance. Most of the time, closures have a ring of the death knell to them, and it seems he wants to ameliorate that. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:46 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | The information communicated by close reasons is too unspecific to be of any use for improvement of the question. This requires someone to actually post a helpful comment. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:36 | comment | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | @AsafKaragila: The On Hold dialogue reads: "If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question." I see this as an invitation to improve the question, and I think this is easier if there is more information about its problems. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:34 | history | edited | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Incorporated suggestions by Todd Trimble |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:28 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Yes, closing questions is not "means for improvements", it is simply a way to say "No, this is not content valid for this website". Whether or not the author (or someone else) makes changes that make the content a better fit, or if other people dispute this decision, is a whole other story. The point is to close the question, because in its present form, it does not fit to the site (as best as the users voting could tell) for one of many possible reasons. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:25 | comment | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | @AsafKaragila: "The point is to close the question" - do you mean to imply that the main goal of closing questions is to shut them down rather than to improve them? In cases where a question really isn't suited for the site, it should be easy to get 5 "Off Topic" votes. But I have also seen reasonable questions get closed (and sometimes reopened again, sometimes after some mild changes, or even just by disagreement), with no consensus on what exactly is the problem with the question. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 12:05 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | That said, I don't see a great reason why all the close reasons couldn't be displayed. There is a bit of discussion on this here meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312658/… but I didn't really buy the reason in the answer. One thing to note: before a question has been closed, the current reasons for closing are displayed when you hit the vote-to-close button (which of course you don't have to follow through on). Also, if at least two people use the same reason, that reason will display after all the close votes are in. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 11:47 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Quite often the offered close reasons are only a loose fit, and different voters make different random choices as to which point to tick. Not to mention that some of the close reasons are almost equivalent in the first place (e.g., plain off-topic and off-topic with math.stackexchange.com suggestion). | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 9:39 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | No. The point is to close the question. If there are five people who think the question should be closed, does it matter why? Do you need five people to tell you that you should eat blueberries for the same reason? Can't it just be good for you and tasty? | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 9:32 | history | asked | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |