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How do we feel about "Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?"
This is a feature for sites that struggle to get close (or reopen) votes
RPG SE is not that site. In fact this site seems to have one of the strongest moderation cultures across the entire network. ...
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How to deal with tug-of-war close reopens?
These things happen — they're not out of the ordinary or the system malfunctioning, merely uncommon events. Everyone with hold/reopen privileges theoretically gets a vote in whether a particular ...
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How do we handle questions that are repeatedly closed and reopened?
Repeated close and reopen rounds occur in a narrow range of circumstances.
One of the most common situations is that a question is simply contentious: several people think it ought to be closed for ...
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How do we feel about "Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?"
At this time, I don't feel like the stakes are high enough to warrant a robust analysis of the data, since SE isn't forcing this upon us; so I will leave a few thoughts based on my experience as one ...
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My question was closed for being opinion based. Now it's been reopened and closed again. Why?
This type of theorycrafting often gets an uneven reception here
My best advice is to not ask about multiclassing from all possible options, but that's not a guarantee that the question won't still be ...
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Should Diamond Mods have a set of guidelines on voting to close/reopen contentious questions? If so, what should that policy be?
Mods know the rules
The power of a mod is often confused with the responsibility of being a mod*. Mods don't close/open a question because they feel like it, they do so, because they know what the SE ...
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Can I Rescind a Reopen Vote?
Reopen votes can't be rescinded. Alas! Don't worry too much about it though. No harm's done, and this just happens sometimes so we take it in stride.
Four other people still have to agree to reopen ...
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Oops, I reopened my own question
Why is this an “oops”?
You intentionally voted to reopen a question, and the system interpreted the vote according to your level of site privilege. The system is working as intended.
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How do we feel about "Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?"
Currently, it's not needed here
On this site, there are several dozen people that vote to close at all times of the day. I have rarely seen a question staying in the Vote-To-Close state for more than ...
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My question was closed for being opinion based. Now it's been reopened and closed again. Why?
For me, it needs more focus and more details.
We do handle optimization questions. See optimization. When you look at the optimization questions dealing with optimizing character performance that have ...
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How do we handle questions that are repeatedly closed and reopened?
The Voting Continues Until The Question Improves
Or until everyone with a strong opinion is locked out of the debate.
In principle, these open-close wars can go on for a very long time, but probably ...
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How can the D&D lore question about evil/good and light/dark be reopened?
It cannot, it is too broad. Questions here are designed to have a best answer, not lists or brainstorms. ‘Random lore about dark being bad’ is an unbounded list. Sorry, wanting to just learn more ...
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Reopen "How can I balance adventures around one of the party members being a monarch?"
Reopening needs 5* votes to reopen, and currently it is in the queue. At the time of this writing, 4 people believe the edits (4 lines) do warrent a reopening.
You did add/change about 4 or 5 ...
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What is the procedure to ask for a reopen when you don't have enough reputation?
There isn't a formal one; reopen voting privileges are granted based on demonstrated experience with the site and subject (measured approximately by reputation), and not having gained the close/reopen ...
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How do we handle questions that are repeatedly closed and reopened?
Whose vote is most valuable?
No one user’s vote is most valuable. Every user with access to close votes gets one vote, and no vote is more valuable than any other.
In a comment, you wrote:
It's much ...
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My question was closed for being opinion based. Now it's been reopened and closed again. Why?
A question generally is opinion based, if there could be at least 2 answers that are vastly different in their results and neither is, objectively speaking, better.
For example the question "What'...
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How can the D&D lore question about evil/good and light/dark be reopened?
A brief explanation:
This is a brief explanation of why I'm asking the question about available lore in D&D related to the origins of good/evil being associated with dark/light.
Two other GMs and ...
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How do we handle questions that are repeatedly closed and reopened?
Just work on it - the number of close-votes is limited.
Every user can only try to close or open a question once each, then can't re-vote to close or open the same question for quite some time. I know ...
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My question was closed for being opinion based. Now it's been reopened and closed again. Why?
At the time I write this answer, the question was closed eight hours ago, and your edit was less than half an hour ago. Edited questions don't automatically re-open, they are automatically made ...
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Should Diamond Mods have a set of guidelines on voting to close/reopen contentious questions? If so, what should that policy be?
Sure, guidelines are good
I'm always a fan of explicit guidelines. Explicit guidelines for reason makes action more easily predicted and thus, in this case, makes moderation seem more transparent.
We ...
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How to deal with tug-of-war close reopens?
While closing a question in general is an appropriate moderator activity, closing or opening a contentious question multiple times is not appropriate without some kind of meta discussion, because that ...
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