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Were you really expecting a different result?
This is simple mathematics; you reduce the number of votes to close, and the number of questions that get closed is going to increase.
That's not what ...
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Robert Harvey's answer is almost perfect. He touches on one point at several points, but I do think it needs more emphasis.
On Programmers, we close questions ruthlessly and viciously. And that's a ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
I absolutely love it. Please consider leaving it in place.
As a moderator, there have been significantly fewer flags asking for a moderator vote to close a question. Before, questions would get to 3 ...
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tl;dr:
Most question closures, when questions in aggregate are analyzed, are valid. This suggests the experiment was successful - not a failure.
This meta post won't be for the faint of heart.
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
I wasn't going to update the experiment this week, but the results this week were so encouraging I can't help myself:
Week posted Qs Closed Close Rate Closed->Edited Reopened Cl->Ed->Re ...
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I think a significant part of the disagreement here might be as simple as conflicting uses of terms like "off-topic".
Some people use "off-topic" in a far broader sense than I do, encompassing what I ...
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On duplicates and other close reasons
Seeing as our dupe-closure practices are something I've complained about ad nauseum; I suppose I should pipe in here.
To be sure, a bit of your question is not super clear to me after reading it ...
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
After one week, the results are not encouraging:
Week posted Qs Closed Close Rate Closed->Edited Reopened Cl->Ed->Re Deletion Rate
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
Getting more questions rehabilitated is a laudable goal, but having the ability to close clearly off-topic questions more quickly and get them off the front page is much more critical.
I would like ...
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I'd like to rebut some of your responses, if I may.
I don't understand this site because...
Software Design and Development means those things that are directly involved with producing software. ...
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
Another aspect you may not have considered, which I believe is also unique to PSE, is the number of close votes being used on old questions. I have a SEDE query I run occasionally that frequently ...
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
It does seem to me that the state of affairs on PSE is exactly what you'd want - questions are either good or bad and voted on accordingly. Superuser seems much more vague with questions that might be ...
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