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Comments on Cannot close question as a duplicate: need to improve user experience

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

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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 close my question Why is it not possible to accept answers? as a duplicate of Suggestion for allowing to mark answers as "accepted", "outdated" or "dangerous". But when I press Close this post, I get the message:

Failed 403

Failed 403

How to reproduce:

  1. Go to Why is it not possible to accept answers?
  2. Press Close.
  3. Press the duplicate radio button.
  4. Paste this URL: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277957
  5. Press Close this post.

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luap42‭ wrote over 3 years ago

No repro from me. I’ll reopen and can you look at the network requests (there should be a page in the F12 dev tools, ping me if you need more assistance) what’s returned here?

Wikis‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@luap42: I tried pressing F12 but didn't see anything obvious - what should I look for? I added steps to reproduce the issue, if that's any help (probably a bit obvious). Perhaps something to do with my permissions?

luap42‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@Wikis can you show a screenshot of the full close dialog? Can you click F12, then something like "Network" (maybe in a "..." menu?). Then make the close request and then there should be a "403" request in the list. Click there and copy the "server response".

Dani‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@luap42 Isn't there a requirement of 250 rep to close posts?

Wikis‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@luap42: full server response: {status: "failed", message: "You must have the Close privilege to close questions."} message: "You must have the Close privilege to close questions." status: "failed"

Wikis‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

Yeah, that's it @Dani. So the messages to the user need to be improved.

Canina‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Not sure if the edit makes this a duplicate of my older question Post action links that cannot be used should be hidden, but it's definitely similar.

luap42‭ wrote over 3 years ago

FWIW this is going to be fixed really soon. And stay tuned for an announcement in a few hours, which the fix belongs to... 🤞