File IO in Every Language

Re:File IO in Every Language by barrkel on Saturday August 21, 2010 @08:09PM (#1623924)

A key part of that problem is that you can't vote against closure. Only after a question has accrued sufficient votes to close it can you start voting to open it again; it's a ratcheting flip-flop.

But it appears Jeff is oddly against this issue:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-...

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote...

Heavily outvoted by the community, he persists in obduracy.

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Re:File IO in Every Language by alextgordon on Saturday August 21, 2010 @09:51PM (#1624046)

I'm not sure I like the present system or proposed solution. You'd then have four ways to vote:

    * Vote question up
    * Vote question down
    * Vote to close
    * Vote not to close

Why not simply close based on downvotes? Or remove downvotes and close algorithmically based on "flags", like we have on HN.

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Re:File IO in Every Language by j_baker on Saturday August 21, 2010 @11:32PM (#1624156)

The ratcheting flip-flop is the best-case scenario for when a question is popular enough for some people to stick around and keep it open. Most of the time, closure is a death warrant for a question. I've seen some real "diamonds in the rough" closed because of this.

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Re:File IO in Every Language by AndrejM on Saturday August 21, 2010 @09:03PM (#1623979)

Interesting. I kept seeing some topics opened, closed, only to be reopened again. I thought the admins couldn't make up their minds.

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