Answer by user77970 for Non-experts closing questions
My experiences with having questions closed is that it can be arbitrary, with too much authority given to individuals whose rankings are sufficiently high to be able to cause a question to be...
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Here is a thought. If you, an expert in a topic, see a problem-statement-question that is interesting, and if you know this question is not a duplicate, and if you judge that adding some context would...
View ArticleAnswer by Arctic Char for Non-experts closing questions
This is really a double-edged sword.I agree that it is frustrating to see good posts being closed, especially when the close-voters don't seem to have the background to understand the given contexts...
View ArticleAnswer by Xander Henderson for Non-experts closing questions
No question in mathematics is unmotivated or intrinsically interesting. Despite the fact that I, myself, often use the phrase "this is a natural question," no question in mathematics is actually...
View ArticleAnswer by Pedro for Non-experts closing questions
The first obvious issue (which I feel is what may have triggered this post, and has been identified by other users in the comments) is that experts can guess the context from a question, and appreciate...
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I have recently noticed what, to me, is a pretty irking trend in the tag I contribute to most often (algebraic geometry). It seems to me that there is a contingent of 'serial closers' who insist on...
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