Questions tagged [closed-questions]
General questions about questions that have been closed because they are off-topic or otherwise do not meet the criteria defined in the FAQ.
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Should we be slower to close some questions?
"Welcome to Stack Exchange. Your question has been closed."
So goes the old joke. Here's a classic example of a post from someone who's clearly not very tech savvy, looking for help with a ...
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Ho do I send a message to whomever closed my question?
I have a question on Ho do I add a new paragraph or new line in Dictation which asks about adding paragraphs to dictaion on macOS. It was closed because there is a different question regarding other ...
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This post is marked as a duplicate, but none of the "original" questions provide the actual answer
I have run into an issue and Googled and found this answer to my issue. In Ventura, I'm finding that Finder windows will follow me from space to space. It's marked as a duplicate and 4 other questions ...
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How to improve this question
This question was closed:
Free WYSIWYG Markdown editor
with the motivation
Questions asking to recommend or find a Mac, book, tool, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Ask Different ...
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In what way did a moderator decide my "Would X work? question is a "shopping question"? I think this has been mishandled, what do others think?
Can I run my laptop directly from an external battery at full throttle while charging my iPhone from the laptop at the same time? was unilaterally closed by a moderator as a "shopping question&...
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Question closed as opinion-based, suggestion on where to ask it?
This question of mine was closed as opinion-based:
I have an iPhone XS, should I update to iOS 15.2?
I understand the reason for closing my question. I also received an helpful comment (thanks). Could ...
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Question closed because of incomplete answer elsewhere
I've run into an issue where I need to make an image of a decent sized USB drive. The only place where I have enough room to store that image is on my iMac. The issue is this drive has FAT32 and EXT4 ...
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My question was closed, but it was asked and answered first and has been helping many people
I asked this question -> How can I install java openjdk 8 on High Sierra or newer macOS
and it was quite a popular problem with a popular solution to boot.
It's "helped" about 66k people (...
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Why do people on this site close questions with a message asking for “more research to be shown”?
I asked a very clear question and it got closed!
My reaction to this was “Why are you all so mean and quick to criticize? I just want some help here, not censorship and more work.”
One key reason my ...
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How should we be closing or not closing accountsd using 400% CPU type questions on 10.15.6 and newer?
We have a rash of people needing help with sluggish Macs on 10.15.6 and 10.15.7
The best technical explanation of this is that some, but not all people get this daemon taking multiple cores of CPU and ...
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You closed my question as duplicate when it obviously isn't
Question in question:
I downloaded a shell executable and man pages from a source I trust. Where should I put them?
You closed it as duplicates of question which only mention where to put the ...
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Why was this question closed?
This question was just closed as "off-topic."
It seems to be on-topic to me, as it concerns only Apple hardware and whether the screen from one Mac might be useable on another model. I agree ...
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Question to be reopened?
A helpful flag was raised by a user that lacks the reputation to vote to reopen on this post. Rather than delay a reopen, I’m posting in case others feel the same.
How to get iphone message history on ...
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Does it make sense to require constructive input before providing moderating feedback?
If a question is to be down voted or to be closed, does it make sense to require moderators to (perhaps walked through a process checklist):
migrate the question to an appropriate group OR
ask ...
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Should I bounty one of these to get a canonical answer for Catalina era hardware?
There are quite a few versions of “I want an external display, an open clamshell and no display whatsoever” questions:
How to automatically turn black main monitor when external monitor is connected ...
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Community♦ decisions - sometimes remarkably rapid
After a quick couple of comments under a new question, I flagged it as a dupe of a similar question, which the OP seemed happy with.
How to use other key combination to replace ⌘W?
Within a minute, ...
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Answer posted to question after question was put on hold
I've put a question on hold, nevertheless a user was able to post an answer later on:
Seems like a bug to me, but maybe I'm missing something here.
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Please re-open GPL licensing question 192299
I have suggested an edit to Can I use GNU source in my iOS app? replacing the confusing use of "GNU source" and "GNU license" with "GPL license" throughout.
I believe this should clarify this rather ...
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Why aren't questions about software development, once closed, automatically migrated to StackOverflow?
In the close menu there is an option for
off topic because > Questions about software development are off-topic here, but can be asked on Stack Overflow.
Why aren't these automatically moved to ...
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My question was closed as duplicate
My question about iOS 11.4 Full Jailbreak was closed as a duplicate although it was asked 1 month earlier than an “original” question. Can someone investigate this?
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Thoughts on OPs deleting questions
I have encountered this a few times recently: A user will ask a question about a problem, the solution to which is generally a one-liner troubleshooting thing posted in the comments (i.e. "Have you ...
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Why was my question closed asking why Apple didn’t implement a hardware feature in a specific device?
Why does the larger iPad pro support fewer LTE bands than the smaller one?
This was VTC'd despite not being "based on opinion, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise." In specific, the ...
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Why was this question with 9 upvotes closed as ""Basic Customer Support or questions asking to recommendation"?
I found out that the question Equivalent of Dragon NaturallySpeaking's HeardWord function in Dragon Dictate 4 got closed two months ago (since no comment was left, I didn't receive any ...
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Could my question(s) be reopened?
I made a small goof.
I asked two hardware questions about Keyboards and Mice. The questions are very similar and, accidentally, I typed in the same title for both (referencing keyboards.)
These ...
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Sales Figures are Off Topic?
Here's a question I asked:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/232549/old-ipod-ipod-mini-sales-figures
It was put On Hold, with this reason chosen:
"Basic Customer Support or questions ...
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Are questions regarding topics whose legality is questionable allowed?
If you search jailbreak, you find 601 questions at time of writing related to jailbreaking one's device. The legality of this is debatable, but yet these questions are being answered. Should we close ...
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Why does the FAQ say "asking how/why Apple does <some thing XYZ>" is off-topic?
I just asked a question about "Why Apple doesn't support android gear watches?" and did a lot of research on how they could support them.
Other similar questions have been closed (or edited or simply ...
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Challenging status of a question marked as duplicate
Recently, a question was marked as a duplicate since there was a similar, but not an actual duplicate, of the question already existing.
In short, the situation was this:
Original question was "How ...
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Once I have sufficient reputation and I vote to close, can I still flag for a moderator to finish the vote?
As far as I know, you need a certain number of close votes to close a question. I have seen some high reputation users closing questions for several reasons. I also saw a moderator closing the ...
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Why we're not customer support for [company X or product Y]
Why do many questions asking for customer support get closed on Ask Different:
Help! My computer doesn't work
https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/276062/
How do I do X to my clash of clans village?
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What does the Gold Badge next to a name on a duplicate post notice mean?
Recently, I found this when I was editing:
What does the gold circle in the shape of a badge mean? Gold Badges don't appear on all marked as duplicate post notices.
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Can someone help with sorting / merging questions about transferring iTunes store balances?
I've closed a few questions as dupes to link questions about:
Transferring iTunes store credit between accounts in general
Disposing of iTunes store credit to allow region / currency changes
Can I ...
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Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different?
Where can we store a list of questions that are considered canonical?
Canonical means that it's asked frequently enough to warrant an excellent clear and detailed answer that the site edits and ...
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How to get my question re-opened?
I recently asked this question Are there USB-A to USB-C adapters for the Early 2015 MacBook and it was closed as "primarily opinion-based" due to there not being enough detail since it was all rumours ...
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Vote to close? I disagree, comments?
I saw this on the review queue as a Vote to Close.
How can I get a me.com e-mail address?
I voted to leave open - I guess my prerogative as much as anyone else's, but it prompted me to actually ...
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How should I handle questions about forgotten credentials
I have a problem how to handle the 99% new users with questions how to crack a password, or AppleID, in some cases forgotten recovery email, or claiming the email is no longer in use.
The questions ...
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Remove duplicate status for a non-duplicate question
Disable iPhoto auto launch when connecting an iPhone or iPad
is marked as duplicate. It's not. It's similar but it only pertains to iPhoto specifically in Yosemite.
Got feedback that it should ...
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Reopening specific Yosemite pre-release questions
There are similar questions regarding reopening in here, but the 'master' question is about Lion & has no accepted answer.
I'm aiming for more specific questions, as people spot them, to perhaps ...
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Question migrated to meta and remains on homepage
Is this expected behavior?
When I click on the link on the homepage it brings me to meta, but why does the link stay behind?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/131360/similar-group-like-...
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What can be done to improve this question?
I've put a hold on this question:
Does anyone know any good Diagnostic tools?
It strikes me as something we want on the site, but as worded, it's far too vague to be searchable IMO.
We don't have ...
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What should be done with questions marked as duplicates of deleted questions?
There are a number of questions that are marked as duplicate of deleted questions:
Will Lion X be downloadable for everyone?
How to recover deleted files from Iphone 4(iOS 4.3)
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Which of these questions should remain open?
We have had several questions about people buying second hand phones and some have been closed as duplicate.
How can I bypass Activation Lock?
How to open iPhone 5c locked with an iCloud account?
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Question was locked and put on hold, but the banners only show 'on hold' and migration
Came across this question:
Enforcing single docent copy in iOS [on hold]
It's on hold and locked, according to timeline, and I can't comment/edit…
Yet the banners below the post only shows the ...
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New Close Process - Too localised
Part of the new close process is to remove the Too Localized reason to close. The reasoning is given on meta stackexchange. The main reason is it is being misused on SO and a few other sites.
The ...
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Changes are coming to the close process. What custom reasons might help this site best?
I wanted to post a main announcement here:
Closing changes: on hold, unclear, too broad, opinion-based, off-topic reasons, bye-bye to Too Localized
These changes are going to be a very nice benefit ...
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Allow "How to Learn Objective-C"-Type Questions?
Came across this question about learning Objective-C. While the FAQ explicitly disallows "Code-level programming questions", this is clearly not a code-level question, and I think there's some value ...
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Requesting re-open votes for a question
I've asked a question on Apple.SE and it was closed. After I successfully argued here that the reason for closing was inadequate, the original closer and others agreed it should be re-opened. It was, ...
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Requesting re-open votes for a question
I'm requesting that people vote to re-open this question: What programs have trouble with case-sensitive (HFSX) filesystems, and how to fix them?
The reason for closing as given by the closer was:
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Why was my question closed?
So I woke up this morning and decided to go check on my most popular question with 5 upvotes, located here. I was hoping for an answer, as it's a question I'd really like answered - it's very ...
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Considering reopening this question
This question was closed due to not having a wide enough audience. I personally think that it should be reopened, as many people do use Quicksilver. What are your thoughts?
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