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Q&A I can close my own question by myself, but not reopen it

I was surprised to find that ordinary user privileges allow me to close my own posts unilaterally. It does seem useful; just now I posted something on Linux Systems and realized it needed some fixe...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Should we remove closed questions from the question list?

Should we exclude closed questions from the question list? Closed questions (and their answers) would still be linked on the owners' profiles, would be included in search results, and would produc...

5 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by whybecause‭

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Q&A Allow OP to self-close questions

After I asked a question, it was pointed out in the comments that it may possibly be a duplicate of another question. I was inclined to agree and wanted to close it. However, the only option I see[...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ploni‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A It is possible to close a question as duplicate to itself.

I wanted to close one of my own meta posts as duplicate, but accidentally pasted the URL to the question I was closing. The site accepted that the post got closed as duplicate to itself. In my opi...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Cannot close question as a duplicate: need to improve user experience

Update You can only close a question when you have 250 rep. Hence, the user experience needs to be improved. My suggestion: hide close button until user has 250 rep. Original question I tried to...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Wikis‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How many votes are required for special actions like close, reopen, delete or restore?

I am wondering about the number of votes required to perform the following actions: close reopen delete restore I have found this forum thread, but it is unclear what are the current values.

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Close reason doesn't appear in post history

See the history of this post, the reason for closure (closed as duplicate) doesn't appear in it; when I reopened the question the close reason and duplicate target were completely lost since it was...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A What are the close reasons on Codidact?

In my opinion the following should be the only default close reason for any Codidact community: CoC (without the problematic sentence) violation obvious spam, like posting nonsense things or promo...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by MathPhysics‭  ·  edited 3y ago by MathPhysics‭