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Why is this question not closed as opinion-based?

In the newsletter mailshot today, top of the "Top new questions" list is this one Why is “!!” considered bad form in Perl? To me this is an obvious example of "Primarily opinion-based" and it already ...
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What to do with this specific yes/no question about red/black trees?

Someone just posted this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/25120574/1313143 Edit - question was removed. Original content follows: Red black tree property check A height-balanced BST is a ...
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Proposal: Adding the text “in text form” in the close reason

Situation: We can see many posts containing links to code / images (snapshot) of code. These posts are bad because The code in the question (image) cannot be indexed for future search. Tough to ...
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Reword close message to better reflect policy on sister sites

I would like to propose changes to the close messages for off-topic questions. The close message when a question is put on hold as off-topic contains the following guidance for questions which were ...
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Why is “primarily opinion-based” a valid close reason on Meta?

I'm not an especially seasoned Meta user, so forgive me if this seems like a trivial question. My impression of Meta is that one of its major functions is to act as a forum for focused discussion of ...
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Why do some sites have migration paths but not close reasons? Why do some sites have close reasons but not migration paths?

Currently, two sites across the Stack Exchange network are explicitly mentioned in the vote to close reasons: Super User is mentioned explicitly in a close reason. Server Fault is mentioned ...
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Automatic Review audit - commenting as duplicate leads to fail

Today I had reviewed as "review audit" following question: Changed domain error - OpenID auth request contains an unregistered domain which ends with I have tried Googling that message but ...
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Edit the software-rec close reason to include APIs / services

This is the current 'software recommendation' off-topic close reason: Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as ...
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Can we update the “rant” close reason to link to how to *constructively* conduct criticisms of Stack Overflow?

Unconstructive rants from disgruntled users are not uncommon on Meta. There were two of them from the same user about half an hour ago. Those that don't end up being closed as duplicate of Why is ...
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Do we need to adopt the custom close reasons from the old meta site here?

Before the MSE/MSO split we had the following custom close reasons: Do we need to adopt any/all of these here or should we wait a while to see which ones might actually be useful?
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Question closed as off-topic for requesting external resource recommendation. But it doesn't

I don't understand the close reason for that question: What is the meaning of the FORCE keyword in a CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE statement? It was closed because "Questions asking us to recommend or ...
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Can we have dynamic description texts for duplicate questions based on the target age?

In a comment to this canonical question, @jib stated: This is a duplicate of [another] already asked question, yet […] the old question [is marked] as a duplicate of [the] new question. Isn't that ...
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Duplicates of canonical questions that have not been migrated from meta.stackexchange.com

There appear to be several canonical questions that are only available on meta.stackexchange.com. e.g.: What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this ...
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Are questions about following style guides considered on-topic?

For those not aware, SMACSS is a style guide for how to name elements in CSS. I follow the sass tag exclusively, so most of the questions I see are along the lines of "how can I make Sass generate ...
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Close reason for tool recommendation lacks link

The close reason text in How to programmatically change "internet slang" to readable English? lacks any links: "Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, ...
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too old to migrate close dialog text

I think this (too old to migrate) must of just been added since don't remember seeing it before: That's some good information to know, however, I don't think this message should appear next to the ...
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Why was this question considered primarily opinion based?

The question: Enum nested in Class vs Interface The reason: Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost ...
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What happens with close voting when there is no winning reason?

What happens with a question if it has >= 5 close votes, but no winning close reason, i.e. there is a tie to the top reason? Mathematically, this is only possible when there are no more than 2 votes ...
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Single-handedly mark as duplicate by 2 users

I just came across this question. This question has been tagged with both bash & git. It was marked as duplicate by two gold badge owners (@tripleee & @vonc) of either of the 2 tags (bash ...
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Policy on syntax clarification questions

Is there a policy, or a canonical thread on discussion policy, on syntax clarification questions? This question on an obscure piece of Ruby regex syntax is the motivation for this question. It asks ...
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What is unclear in this question?

I recently asked the question How do I produce plain binary from object files? on Stack Overflow. It was put on hold as it was considered to be "unclear". Can anyone well aware with the rules of ...
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What flag to use for trivial question, if any

Is there a flag agreed to be used for trivial question, or those question are still considered good question on SO? If they are to be flagged I'm not sure about "Low quality" because is the inherent ...
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Should the off-topic #5 be updated with a better definition of an off-site resource?

I'm looking at the #5 rule under Some questions are still off-topic, even if they fit into one of the categories listed above: Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite ...
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If a question is both off topic for SO and not migratable because it's known to be a dupe too

As an example, this Run a 16bits application on Windows 64bits question seems both off topic and a candidate for migration to Super User as there's already a lot of duplicates there. What should I do? ...
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How could I make this question less broad?

I just had this question put on hold because it seems too broad. I had the feeling that it would make a good question about the limitations of cgo and don't really understand what's wrong about it. ...
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add number of answers by author in close queue

When working that close Queue I sometimes encounter a comment below the question from the OP stating that "it works now" or "I solved it" or something the like. If the question is otherwise valid ...
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Make marked-as-duplicate “guidance for next time” link to search help

If a question is closed as duplicate, you wind up with something at the top of the question like: This question already has an answer here: Link To Other Question 5 answers Then at the ...
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Wipe off [yahoo-pipes] stuff?

Yahoo! pipes was a nice tool, but the only remain is the inspiration caused via its current similes and alternatives with some of them also supporting the backup you maybe made when noticed the coming ...
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Should this have been marked as a duplicate

I answered this question, which has now been closed by a gold tag badge as a duplicate. The original question is more of less, why is this regex not working? and the "duplicate" question is a ...
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Why is this question about differences between two methods too broad?

I noticed that this old question has been closed as 'Too broad' I obviously don't understand something about the meaning of 'too broad' as the question seems fine to me. There are either too many ...
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Fixing “How to check oracle database for long running queries?”

The question "How to check oracle database for long running queries?" was closed as "Not a Real Question". The question seems pretty good to me. The asker has an application running against Oracle ...
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