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What more details does my question need?
The question is similar to saying "How do I add 200HP to my car?" We need to know what type of car, what engine it has and diagrams for the car. The question was closed because we don't even ...
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Is it the OP's fault his question is "locked-out" for 7 days due to arguments in answers
Note to other site members: There was excessive disruption, argument and rudeness in comments that have since been deleted (and elsewhere) i.e. you cannot now see the whole picture.
I knew that my ...
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Can we have one answer to "why is ebay/ali/etc selling this module for less than the bulk part cost"?
The linked question is NOT about shopping, buying, or purchasing recommendations.
It is about electronic engineering, one dimension of which is managing cost.
How you can reduce the cost of a ...
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Closure reason doesn't make any sense to me
In this Meta question, what you said about your question on the main site is: "This is clearly a technical inquiry asking for an explanation"
But your question on the main site did not read ...
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Are there any other changes I should make to this question to get it reopened?
While I appreciate the effort you have put into editing your question, it is still far too broad. The nub of it seems to be:
How do I write multiple streams of real-time data to a filesystem?
And ...
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What exactly is not clear in this question?
What exactly is not clear in this question?
It is mostly verbal diarrhea.
I can sympathize with those that voted to close. I suspect it wasn't as much unclear as screw this.
However, there is ...
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Reason for question closure unfounded
I agree. I voted to reopen.
The "use of electronic devices" close reason is there to avoid questions like "How do I take a screenshot on my iPhone"? Basically, questions whose ...
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Questioning this closure
I didn't vote to close it, but I see it was closed because it "needs more focus."
The problem is, you've asked a general question. You could write whole books about the subject in your question. ...
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What should we do about the bad close vote culture of this site?
I can relate to the behavior you describe, and deem it incorrect behavior in those cases that you describe. I expect the moderation team to suspend users who abuse the power of issuing close-votes. If ...
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What should we do about the bad close vote culture of this site?
I think the heart of community moderation is letting the community moderate, but screening for clear abuses like targeting one user for no reason is probably a good practice.
That said, I'm not, and ...
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What exactly is not clear in this question?
The answer shows that the premise of the question is flawed to begin with — the OP doesn't understand the relationships among voltage, current and magnetic field in a transformer. In other words,...
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A question was closed as duplicate, but I dissagree with it (I am not OP). What is the correct way of bringing this up?
Standard practice would be to add a comment under the question, and then nominate the question to be reopened, which places it in the review queue to be examined by other community reviewers.
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Question about RAMS engineering closed as "opinion-based"
Sometimes the close reason does not match up with why a question is really closed, and this is one such case, I think.
Your answer about RAMS approaches was very comprehensive and interesting -- ...
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Is it a good idea to immediately slap on the wrist and close questions?
I'm going to answer this part because the rest of it does not make much sense afterwards:
Is it a good idea to immediately slap on the wrist and close questions?
Closing a question is not a slap ...
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Is it a good idea to immediately slap on the wrist and close questions?
It is true that the main question in the first post you linked is not "What PCB fab house should I go with?" (shopping question), but rather "How can I check whether a given PCB fab house is reliable ...
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Why not tell OP when the question is unclear?
It's not common, but it happens.
Ideally, it is customary to tell OP why one votes to close their question, unless someone else has already done so in the comment section.
Personally I try to do ...
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Closure reason doesn't make any sense to me
I have reopened the question.
Please see my two comments on the question - one of which asks for more information from you.
The vote to close reasons are very broadly defined and the system does not ...
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Why was the list of closers removed when a question is closed?
It's now only visible to the author, and those that have unlocked the close vote privilege.
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What is going on with this question
The biggest problem is that you never defined "the new format" that you were looking for. There is no single standard for such symbols.
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How is it decided that a question is unclear?
The close menu is pretty bad. Sometimes the "unclear" option is the most convenient, but not the most accurate or precise.
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How is it decided that a question is unclear?
A question is unclear when it lacks the necessary information to discern the goal or the necessary details of the requirement to enable a good answer.
It's not just that the example you picked is an ...
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Where to ask discussion / advice questions?
I can eventually suggest chat for this, which has much less strict requirements. The problem is that chat leverages far less visibility than regular questions, so if you're lucky, you'll eventually ...
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Where to ask discussion / advice questions?
This is a common question, but the harsh reality is that it's not "our" job to find the right place for your questions. This is true for questions about where on Stack Exchange to ask a question, but ...
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Question about IC identification put on hold as off-topic
We grudgingly accept component identification questions. Since they are at the edge of what we do, and some think we shouldn't do them at all, they need to be extra good. Yours wasn't.
Seriously!? ...
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Should this embedded software development question have been closed?
Yes, it was a fine close. It would not have been a great candidate for migration, as it wasn't a very good question in the first place.
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Can we have one answer to "why is ebay/ali/etc selling this module for less than the bulk part cost"?
I agree with Brian, the underlying question is absolutely part of engineering. But questions about how to purchase any particular component are off-topic.
The best way to make this happen is for ...
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Why a question on LTspice settings is not "on-topic"?
Closing that question was inappropriate. It may well be that there is nothing one can do from inside LT Spice to use the specific processor more efficiently, but that's what the question was about.
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What should we do about the bad close vote culture of this site?
Doing a bit of research on meta, and thinking about our recent change to 3 votes, I have a bit more insight.
It really feels to me like the close mechanisms are well-suited to high-traffic stacks with ...
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Question about IC identification put on hold as off-topic
I don't have a strong opinion regarding whether your question should've been put on hold as off-topic or not, per se.
However, I do agree with some of the reasons said by Olin. I took myself a look ...
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Request to reopen. Peer-pressure or peer-review?
The linked question does not meet the guidelines if there site or stack exchange. It fails in several ways: it is an opinion question "is it possible" questions automatically make it a matter of ...
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