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Is the distinction too subtle between downvoting and voting to close?
A CLOSE VOTE IS NOT A SUPER-DOWNVOTE.
Sorry for shouting. But this is a really important point which far too many people apparently fail to grasp.
Downvotes are used at the discretion of the ...
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Is this puzzle like a mathematics exercise?
How I'd answer your questions:
Question of consistency: Is there something about this puzzle that lands it in the same bin as a mathematics “problem” vs puzzle?
Sort of. I admit when I first read ...
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Should "What's the Missing Number in the Series X" be allowed?
One problem with them is that you can make a serious case that any answer to these problems is valid.
Mathematically, what these problems are asking is, there is a function $f : x \rightarrow y$ that ...
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What to do with "What is the best method of scrambling a rubik's cube?"
Leave it open.
I'm going to start this answer in a controversial way, by quoting part of the site tour which actually doesn't usually apply here on Puzzling:
Focus on questions about an actual ...
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Are questions that change the premise slightly duplicates?
I think it's important to distinguish between puzzles which change the premise slightly, but in a fashion which requires a totally different solution, versus those whose solution would be readily ...
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Proper rules for closing
too broad
the question has already 3+ answers that all look plausible/acceptable
I can easily think of one or more answers for this riddle
Op has been contacted:
-- OP states the intended answer ...
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Should "What's the Missing Number in the Series X" be allowed?
These questions are already officially off-topic.
I'm not sure if that policy is still applicable, however, considering its lack of enforcement these days.
Today I've gone and voted to close a bunch ...
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What to do with "What is the best method of scrambling a rubik's cube?"
Leave it open.
While questions of the form "What is the best X?" ought to be closed as "opinion-based", I think this question can easily be salvaged simply by removing the word &...
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Are questions that change the premise slightly duplicates?
I've been thinking of a method of classifying the level of duplication (actually, the level of difference) of two questions for a while. I'm not suggesting this as a site-wide standard or anything, I ...
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Is the distinction too subtle between downvoting and voting to close?
I don't have VTC privilege on this site yet,
but, if I did, I would be inclined
to leave It is related to a type of mathematics game closed
because it is a mathematics problem and not a mathematics ...
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