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    • CommentAuthorbsteinberg
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2012
     
    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?
    • CommentAuthorRyan Budney
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2012 edited
     

    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.

    • CommentAuthorbsteinberg
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2012
     
    In the duplicate question case it showed the majority one and my mistaken one.
    • CommentAuthorRyan Budney
    • CommentTimeJan 23rd 2012 edited
     

    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".

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    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?

    • CommentAuthorbsteinberg
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2012
     
    In http://mathoverflow.net/questions/86229/homology-classes-closed it shows 2 candidates for exact duplicate, one of which is my accidental choice.
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    a side note ... menu too small ... can't you use two fingers and make it bigger?

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    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.

    • CommentAuthorbsteinberg
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2012
     
    MO doesn't interface too well with iPhone. Things tend to be too big or too small.

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