Answer by Jean-François Fabre for Closing questions with typos faster:...
There are a few cases of "interesting" typos (Are typos always off-topic as Q&A?), but most of them of course have an existing answer somewhere on the site.You could workaround some cases with some...
View ArticleAnswer by user663031 for Closing questions with typos faster: typo-hammer?
We need to work out a better definition of what we collectively consider a typoIndeed. But the question should be restated without using the word "typo". The real issue is that there are classes of...
View ArticleAnswer by cimmanon for Closing questions with typos faster: typo-hammer?
I would like to propose that questions that were closed under the "solved in a way that will not help future visitors (typos, cannot reproduce, etc.)" reason are eligible to be removed by the Roomba...
View ArticleAnswer by Ian Ringrose for Closing questions with typos faster: typo-hammer?
(Posted as an answer, as I am expecting a comment thread to result from this. Depending on the comments I may post this as a question in its own right.)Giving gold badge holders the power to close a...
View ArticleAnswer by Ian Ringrose for Closing questions with typos faster: typo-hammer?
The issue is not closing the questions.The problem is that these questions and their answers get so many up votes that they:Show up on the site too muchDon’t get auto deleted as they have a score of...
View ArticleClosing questions with typos faster: typo-hammer?
When a question with a problem caused entirely by an obvious typo appears, the proper course of action is to close it. Unfortunately, it takes several minutes or longer to gather the five votes...
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