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I would like to propose lower threshold for votes.
I motivate this with high threshold for votes, rather small community (compared to SO for example), which in turn yields poor users' moderation.

To make this effective (a proof of community involvement and general agreement), please cast your vote in the answers.
If you feel like some additional comment is needed, please write it below answer it belongs to.

For simplicity, I propose that we use only upvotes on given answer to avoid counting twice (say downvote to “no” and upvote to “yes” may be inconsistent, some users may cast one, some two votes).

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  • $\begingroup$ Did you have a deadline for this vote in mind? Do need help finishing up this thread and/or pushing the matter upstairs? $\endgroup$
    – Raphael Mod
    Dec 19, 2019 at 7:15
  • $\begingroup$ @Raphael yes, pushing it upstairs would be nice - it was the goal from the beginning. Deadline is standard, one week, so it ends today. $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Dec 19, 2019 at 12:58
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    $\begingroup$ I flagged this post, which I think is visible for community management. If we don't get a response until, say Jan 10th, please ping me (or any of the mods) so we can ping CM in chat. $\endgroup$
    – Raphael Mod
    Dec 27, 2019 at 19:09
  • $\begingroup$ @Raphael, I think, it is the time to check with CM (I can't ping D.W. and Discrete Lizard at once). $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Jan 11, 2020 at 2:38
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    $\begingroup$ It's my understanding that we're in the queue, but implementing this policy has been delayed (not just our site but everyone, I think). $\endgroup$
    – D.W. Mod
    Feb 5, 2020 at 16:57
  • $\begingroup$ I see. There is much going on recently. Thank you for update. $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Feb 6, 2020 at 0:55

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Yes, please change the threshold on close/reopen votes.

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  • $\begingroup$ I can't cast my vote, but it is +1 here. $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Dec 12, 2019 at 3:17
  • $\begingroup$ This will be an evil change. I wish I could downvote it infintely times $\endgroup$
    – Tim
    Dec 24, 2019 at 14:02
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    $\begingroup$ @Tim why? We do not have that much high rep users to vote. Change with reopen threshold is something that you should like. $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Dec 24, 2019 at 14:04
  • $\begingroup$ Why? How about facing the abusive problem at root: why questions are closed mistakenly? Where there are humans, there is inhumanity $\endgroup$
    – Tim
    Dec 24, 2019 at 14:05
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    $\begingroup$ Because these are duplicates, unclear (so there are many answers with different parsing of the question), problem dumps with no effort, several questions per post requiring a book instead of answer or discussion openers. In my opinion, these are not closed prematurely. Moreover, reducing reopen threshold gives you opportunity to revert, when you disagree. $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Dec 24, 2019 at 14:08
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I suggest keeping the close vote requirement (stuff gets closed quickly anyway) but lowering the open vote requirement since there is usually less interest in questions that have been closed, and this makes it hard to reopen prematurely closed questions.

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  • $\begingroup$ I agree with you. Moreover, we should tackle the abusive problem at root: why questions are closed prematurely? $\endgroup$
    – Tim
    Dec 24, 2019 at 12:28
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No, please do not change the threshold on close/reopen votes.

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  • $\begingroup$ I'm mostly around at cstheory.SE. There I sometimes experienced that low quality questions received very informed and thorough answers that turned the question into something really valuable. $\endgroup$
    – Hermann Gruber
    Dec 12, 2019 at 21:52
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I do not really care what is the threshold.

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    $\begingroup$ Is this answer necessary? Someone that doesn't care the threshold just doesn't vote. $\endgroup$
    – xskxzr
    Dec 12, 2019 at 6:02
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    $\begingroup$ @xskxzr Yes, it is needed, for other reasons. If there are more “lost votes”, the poll is deemed ineffective. There is also a difference in participation between no vote and no answer. If nobody uses it, well it was not needed, but there is no harm in giving option. $\endgroup$
    – Evil
    Dec 12, 2019 at 12:51

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