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Add links to alternate languages in the message saying English-only
When closing a Question on the English edition of Stack Overflow for not being in English, the message says:
Stack Overflow is an English-only site. The author must be able to communicate in English ...
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Started bounty on someone else's interesting question, then question has been closed before end of bounty
I have found this interesting question (I am not the author) : Cut a video in between key frames without re-encoding the full video using ffpmeg?.
It was quite upvoted, which shows interest by other ...
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Adding "lack of effort" as a close vote reason [duplicate]
I frequently come across SO questions that have code snippets just copy/pasted from poor online sites and asking what is the problem with that code and why it doesn't work.
The main problem with these ...
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Chat with close voters about question closure
Read through the following scenario to see why I think being able to chat with the reviewing users of an issue is crucial:
Scenario
A question I posted recently (this one) was closed for needing to be ...
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Add a delay for closing / deleting questions
Today I experienced this question on SO get closed in 17 minutes as a duplicate. The part about what yield does is a duplicate, yes, but as I wrote in the comments there are other problems the OP ...
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Can you share flags when it is inactive for weeks/months?
I still have 2 flags still unreviewed and I already read this and I understand that not everyone is seeing all these flags being put.
In this question, I flagged it to be migrated with the words:
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The process of closing and re-opening questions should be more robust
Yesterday, I asked a valid technical question regarding WPF.
Well, I'm an experienced software architect. I know what I'm doing and how to ask a question in a correct manner. In my question I provided ...
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Add new closing option "Shows little or no effort" [duplicate]
Everyday, more and more questions are posted that are simply variances of "do my job for me while I go have a beer". These questions show little or no effort on the OPs' part, not even to ...
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New question close option [duplicate]
Nowadays, many questions on Stack Overflow are nothing but a homework dump. But there is no proper option to close such questions. These are the existing close options:
Duplicate - This question has ...
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Why does SO not add more sites to "This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network"? - Close reasons
This has been an issue for about 9 years (earliest post I could found was from June 2011, see below) now and I personally feel very uncomfortable with that it isn't fixed already. I clearly say "...
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"Closing as off-topic" Update for Wrong Language [duplicate]
The "Close" dialog would benefit from options to redirect people to the appropriately localized Stack Overflow site. There's several now and yet with regularity there's Russian, Spanish and Portguese ...
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Flagging a post as a duplicate should cost reputation points
As of now one of the ways to perform a point-free aggressive action against a poster is to flag the post as a duplicate leaving one more avenue that opens the system to abuse. There should be a speed-...
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Can we trial a line in the close vote reasons other with a link to flag as spam?
A request to add a read line near the closing -> Off-Topic -> Other with a link to flag as spam.
this addresses the confusion people have when using a custom close reason for spam
does not interfere ...
user3956566
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Workflow for closing bounty questions
The workflow for closing questions that have active bounties is a little cumbersome...
At the moment if you try to closevote a question with an active bounty you'll see this:
I would guess that most ...
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Final (binding) Votes to Close and Delete should trigger a revision to be saved
As a moderator, I sometimes have to delete bad answers. Sometimes, those answers are edited after I've deleted them, and it turns into an episode of "The Big Bad Moderator".
This doesn't just happen ...
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