The last paragraph suggests sometimes the questions you see may be closed as a temporary measure, to prevent answers being posted until the question is ready. Once edited to clarify, it can be reopened ready for answers to be posted. This can reduce the chance of answers being posted that are then invalidated by later edits to the question.

I think it would be useful for answers here to cover both of the following:

• How to prompt the reopening of a question after it has been edited.
• How to escalate a case where the user disagrees with a moderator (or curator) about whether a post should have been closed or deleted in the first place.

I was actually thinking of the cases where the question can be improved with edits, but is good enough as it is and shouldn't be closed even without edits.

But your point is relevant also. Stack has a "reopen flag", which seems related.

I'm not sure if we already have a reopen flag - hopefully someone posting an answer can confirm. It might only be available to curators or some similar ability.

I'd particularly like to see both cases covered in an answer because I can imagine both happening at the same time: If I disagree that a question should have been closed, I may want to have it reopened as an immediate measure, but also want to have the case escalated due to being closed incorrectly. I suppose it may be different depending on whether the question was closed unilaterally by a moderator, or by the votes of 5 curators (or however many of the appropriate ability).

I don't think we have a reopen flag. I assume that user are expected to flag "other" and put in "reopen" as the reason. That's not intuitive, though.

Thanks for pointing out the lack of a reopen flag. If we had one, then curators would be able to see that flag and respond to it. I've generalized this in this change request on GitHub.

Thank you, Monica! That's a great description, and it would address the issue of a lack of a reopen flag if implemented.