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One of the patterns that I've noticed showing up persistently at RPG.se is what I'll call, for lack of a better term, Low Quality Question Fatigue. The LQQF pattern is visible as the appearance of unu …

I'm going to echo your run-down of the possible reasons for it being put on hold, based on the current revision and not earlier ones: Too broad: check It's too broad in two ways: the target group is …

The standard five people have now voted to close What does the court dialect of Infernal sound like? as opinion-based. I'm tempted to reopen it because it's directly asking for published material, an …

It's probably salvageable The biggest problem with it is that we don't know if they're a DM or player (as #3 below), which makes it harder to write quality answers. But by itself, that's not actually …

This is one of the (many) reasons why we are only supposed to mark question as duplicate when they are 100% the same. If we stick to that site rule, the situation shouldn't ever arise where we have t …

One was explicitly asking for ideas for stuff to do, and the entire world of possibilities are valid answers. What might work is unknowable, as the situation and what ideas might work to fool the othe …

They’re only superficially similar The two questions are only really similar is asking for build advice in their current versions. They’re different in ways the Stack cares about: The one that was cl …

Go ahead! But please make sure not to just cut-and-paste, and that you do have this problem yourself (so that you are able to meaningfully answer any comments to clarify the question). Ask your own qu …

Not an answer, but here are some related discussions on MSO: Block downvoting a closed question asked Nov 18 '11 Why allow closed questions to be voted on? asked Mar 19 '11 Downvote “pile-on” on clo …

Optino #3, migrating, is totally possible and the most sensible option in this case. Mods have access to the merge tool, which—well, let me just paste the usage guidance beside its button: Questio …

It’s currently long enough to dissuade reopen voters from re-reading a niche question written about foreign (non-RPG domain) technical concepts. It’s also written at a much higher grade level than nec …

Shog9 has put together a bunch of statistics on question closing and reopening in 2016 for all the sites on MSE: 2016: a year in closing. I've pulled in the data for just RPG.se here, for the communit …

Asking for how to get feedback is fine How to get feedback is fine. Asking how to get feedback is fine because it's something we can handle, with voting for the objectively best experience-backed sol …