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bsteinberg comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18150)

bsteinberg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:46:47 -0800

MO doesn't interface too well with iPhone. Things tend to be too big or too small.

Scott Carnahan comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18149)

Scott Carnahan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:18:49 -0800

Closures are always for one reason with this software. When a question is closed for being an exact duplicate, all questions selected by the voters are displayed. I've deleted the superfluous question.

geraldedgar comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18148)

geraldedgar — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:12:16 -0800

a side note ... menu too small ... can't you use two fingers and make it bigger?

bsteinberg comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18147)

bsteinberg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:14:26 -0800

In http://mathoverflow.net/questions/86229/homology-classes-closed it shows 2 candidates for exact duplicate, one of which is my accidental choice.

Andrew Stacey comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18145)

Andrew Stacey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:15:26 -0800

The majority/minority display is (I believe) a feature of the SE2.0 sites, not MathOverflow. Are you, perhaps, thinking of a maths-SX question for that?

Ryan Budney comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18142)

Ryan Budney — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:31:11 -0800

That's odd, I've never seen that before. When a question is closed, I think I've only ever seen one stated reason to close, at least, that's visible to everyone.

Are you referring to this thread? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/86445/literature-on-total-strict-preorders-closed

To me the only reason to close I can see is "off topic".

bsteinberg comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18132)

bsteinberg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:25:17 -0800

In the duplicate question case it showed the majority one and my mistaken one.

Ryan Budney comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18130)

Ryan Budney — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:23:39 -0800

No, I don't think so. I think we all make these kinds of mistakes once and a while. Luckily it takes several votes to close and the majority reason is the one displayed so usually your mistake won't have an embarassing consequence.

bsteinberg comments on "Can you change a to close vote if you selected the wrong category?" (18129)

bsteinberg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:43:27 -0800

Sometimes I do a vote to close on my IPhone and accidentally hit the wrong category because the menu is too small. For example, yesterday I voted to close as an exact duplicate but then accidentally hit the wrong entry from the list of questions. Today I meant to hit not a real question and accidentally hit blatantly offensive. Is there a way to reset or fix the vote?