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This post is about Q&A websites in general. In StackExchange there is a culture of closing questions which do not reflect "the standards"; it's a culture that I as someone who uses SE since 20...
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2021-08-31T19:24:55Z (over 3 years ago)
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Why closed questions tend not to get reopened?
This post is about Q&A websites in general. In StackExchange there is a culture of closing questions which do not reflect "the standards"; it's a culture that I as someone who uses SE since 2012 find extreme; firstly because of the vastness of this phenomenon and secondly because it causes questions to get automatically deleted. * Often times SE users will try their best to edit a closed question and would have make it "valid" by the sites' scope but the question would remain closed until deletion * I don't recall any closed question in the SE network to have ever been reopened beside some rare cases in WebMasters SE which is a very quiet website with barely any traffic compared to others there Why closed questions tend not to get reopened?<br> The only explanation I know of is _occupational burnout_;<br> Maybe many humans are just not capable of dealing with such tremendous amounts of text in a dynamic way, unless the system is very ordinal, flexible and accessible.